wild

English Online Dictionary. What means wild‎? What does wild mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīld, IPA^(key): /waɪld/, [waɪ̯ɫd], [ˈwaɪ̯.ɫ̩d]
• Rhymes: -aɪld

Etymology 1

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”).

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).

   Antonym: tame

2. From or relating to wild creatures.

4. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
5. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
6. (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.

7. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

8. Furious; very angry.
9. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

10. Enthusiastic.

11. Very inaccurate; far off the mark.

12. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

13. (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
14. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

    Antonym: tame

15. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.

16. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
17. Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

    a wild track; wild sound

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wild

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

wild (not comparable)

1. Inaccurately; not on target.

2. (of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.

2. (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
   • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

     Thus every good his native wilds impart
     Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
     And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
     Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Derived terms

• in the wild

Verb

wild (third-person singular simple present wilds, present participle wilding, simple past and past participle wilded)

1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
   • 1999, Busta Rhymes (Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.), Iz They Wildin Wit Us? (song)

     Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

2. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.

Etymology 2

Noun

wild (plural wilds)

1. Alternative form of weald

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wild, from Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch *wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəlt/

Adjective

wild (attributive wilde, comparative wilder, superlative wildste)

1. wild

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wilt, from Old Dutch wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪlt/
• Hyphenation: wild
• Rhymes: -ɪlt
• Homophone: wilt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildst)

1. wild

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild
• Berbice Creole Dutch: weldri
• Jersey Dutch: wäld
• Negerhollands: wild, weeld, welt, willit, wil

Noun

wild n (uncountable)

1. game (food; animals hunted for meat)
2. wildlife
3. wilderness

Derived terms

• jachtwild
• pluimwild
• wildseizoen
• wildwissel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wild

Anagrams

• lidw.

German

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Adjective

wild (strong nominative masculine singular wilder, comparative wilder, superlative am wildesten)

1. wild
2. (obsolete) strange

   Synonym: fremd

Declension

Derived terms

• halb so wild
• wilde Ehe
• wildern
• wildfremd
• Wildheit
• Wildnis
• Wildernis

Related terms

Further reading

• “wild” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “wild” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “wild” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wild” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German wildi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vilt/
• Rhymes: -ilt

Adjective

wild (comparative wilder, superlative wildest)

1. wild

Declension

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German wilde, from Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Compare English, Dutch and German wild, West Frisian wyld, Danish vild.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪlt/

Adjective

wild (comparative willer, superlative willst)

1. wild

Declension

Maltese

Alternative forms

• weld

Etymology

From Arabic وَلَد (walad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪlt/

Noun

wild m (plural ulied)

1. offspring