wildness Definition

wild
adj wilder, wildest

1. Said of animals: untamed or undomesticated; not dependent on humans.

Thesaurus: feral, undomesticated.
2. Said of plants: growing in a natural uncultivated state.
3. Said of country: desolate, rugged, inhospitable or uninhabitable.
4. Said of peoples: savage; uncivilized.

Thesaurus: uncivilized, primitive, savage, barbarous.
5. Unrestrained; uncontrolled.

Example: wild fury
Thesaurus: uncontrolled, unrestrained, unmanageable, unruly, fractious, disorderly.
6. Frantically excited.
7. Distraught.

Example: wild with grief
8. Dishevelled; disordered.

Example: wild attire
9. Said of the eyes: staring; distracted or scared-looking.
10. Said of weather: stormy.
11. Said of plans or hopes, etc: crazy; impracticable or unrealistic.

Thesaurus: bizarre, strange, daft, crazy, lunatic, way-out (slang).
12. Said of a guess: very approximate, or quite random.

Thesaurus: inaccurate, erratic, mistaken, wrong, unsound, off.
13. colloq
Furious; extremely angry.
14. slang
Enjoyable; terrific.

noun

1. A wild animal's or plant's natural environment or life in it.

Example: returned the cub to the wild
Form: the wild
2. Lonely, sparsely inhabited regions away from the city.

Thesaurus: wilderness, wasteland, backveld, outback, desert, boondocks (US slang), the sticks, the back of beyond, the middle of nowhere.
Form: wilds

Derivative: wildish
adj

Derivative: wildly
adverb

Derivative: wildness
noun

Idiom: run wild

Said of a garden or plants: to revert to a wild, overgrown and uncultivated state.

Said eg of children: to live a life of freedom, with little discipline or control.

Idiom: wild about someone or something

Intensely fond of or keen on them or it.

Idiom: wild and woolly

Unrefined or unpolished; crude.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wilde.