Definition von wild im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- A surname for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land
- Untamed; not domesticated
The island of Chincoteague is famous for its wild horses.
- The undomesticated state of a wild animal
After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
- a wilderness
- Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain
- Inaccurately; not on target
The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
- To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang
It's not a term that we in the police had heard before, the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell..
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic
Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious
The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
- Unrestrained or uninhibited
I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy
After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
- Enthusiastic
I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
- Inaccurate
The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
- Wild behaviour is uncontrolled, excited, or energetic. The children are wild with joy As George himself came on stage they went wild They marched into town to the wild cheers of the inhabitants. + wildly wild·ly As she finished each song, the crowd clapped wildly
- {a} not tame, desert, savage, turbulent, fierce, licentious, loose, sickle, strange, fanciful
- {n} a desert, waste, bad uninhabited country
- if something is wild it's great, if someone is wild they are out of control
- a wild and uninhabited area
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"
- in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild
- A taste fault in the coffee beans characterized by extreme variation between sample cups Usually marked by unpleasant sourness Result of internal chemical changes in the green coffee beans or external contamination
- Some viruses are only within a company while others are spread out all around the world Most viruses are in the "wild," where the average user could contract and be infected with the virus Some viruses are identified and stopped, or created for testing purposes only, prior to distribution into the wild The Joe Wells list is widely accepted as a leading list of viruses incidents documented in the wild
- in an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here"
- Wild land is natural and is not used by people. Elmley is one of the few wild areas remaining in the South East. + wildness wild·ness the wildness of the mountains
- Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land
- Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy
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- Animals that live in the wild live in a free and natural state and are not looked after by people. Fewer than a thousand giant pandas still live in the wild
- If someone is wild, they are very angry. For a long time I daren't tell him I knew, and when I did he went wild. = mad, crazy
- Hard to steer; said of a vessel
- If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way. Everything that could grow was running wild for lack of attention
- Rivers or sections of rivers free of impoundments and generally inaccessible except by trails, with essentially primitive watersheds or shorelines and unpolluted waters
- {s} savage; of the wild; unruly; desolate; unrestrained; angry; running rampant; stormy; struck with insanity; unrealistic
- Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or &?;ewilderment; as, a wild look
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants"
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild" not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch" in a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief" produced without being planted or without human labor; "wild strawberries" in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties" in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild
- A wild idea is unusual or extreme. A wild guess is one that you make without much thought. Browning's prediction is no better than a wild guess. + wildly wild·ly `Thirteen?' he guessed wildly. see also wildly, wild child
- The wild component measures the extent to which a virus is already spreading among computer users This measurement includes the number of infected independent sites and computers, the geographic distribution of infection, the ability of current technology to combat the threat, and the complexity of the virus
- {i} area that has not been cultivated or domesticated, area that is savage and away from civilization, wilderness, desert
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
- not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch"
- Growing spontaneously, not cultivated
- in a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"
- not tamed or domesticated, living in a basically free condition A wild animal provides for its own food, shelter, and other needs in an environment that serves as a suitable habitat
- without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"
- An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead
- beyond your wildest dreams: see dream in your wildest dreams: see dream to sow your wild oats: see oats. wild ass wild pig wild boar Hickok Wild Bill wild carrot wild rice Wild West Show
- not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield
- in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild"
- produced without being planted or without human labor; "wild strawberries"
- Wild is used to describe the weather or the sea when it is stormy. The wild weather did not deter some people from swimming in the sea. = stormy
- talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic"
- The wilds of a place are the natural areas that are far away from towns. They went canoeing in the wilds of Canada
- If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much. I'm just wild about Peter, and he's just wild about me = be crazy about
- Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey
- A board is said to "run wild" when it is nailed into place running past its stopping point and then cut in place
- Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat
- deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch"
- in the wild, in the wilderness; uncontrollably; purposelessly
- Wildly; as, to talk wild
- Wild animals or plants live or grow in natural surroundings and are not looked after by people. We saw two more wild cats creeping towards us in the darkness The lane was lined with wild flowers
- Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties"
- If you describe someone or their behaviour as wild, you mean that they behave in a very uncontrolled way. The house is in a mess after a wild party. + wildly wild·ly Five people were injured as Reynolds slashed out wildly with a kitchen knife. + wildness wild·ness He had come to love the danger and the wildness of his life
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts"
- feral
- Wild Hunt
- A ghostly hunt that rides across the sky, common to English German and Scandinavian folklore
The night grew lighter as we welcomed the Aelfkin and Frey to join us, the Mothers we honoured and speeches made on Woden and the Wild Hunt.
- Wild Turkey
- A brand of bourbon whiskey from Kentucky
Want to check out Waikiki East. I hear they got a fresh shipment of Wild Turkey..
- Wild West
- A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system
The CEO commented that the Russian business environment of the 1990s was the Wild West.
- Wild West
- The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly
- wild animal
- One exhibiting uncontrolled behaviour (figurative use)
- wild animal
- Any animal living in a natural, undomesticated state
- wild animals
- plural form of wild animal
- wild blueberry
- Any of several species of blueberry, of the genus Vaccinium, having blue berries, that are not normally cultivated
- wild boar
- A wild swine native to Europe and North Africa, scientific name Sus scrofa
- wild boars
- plural form of wild boar
- wild card
- A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion
Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card.
- wild card
- In card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card
- wild card
- a character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing
- wild cards
- plural form of wild card
- wild cherries
- plural form of wild cherry
- wild cherry
- The uncultivated cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia
- wild cherry
- The fruit of this tree
- wild child
- A headstrong, rebellious young person
I was a wild child, she said, sounding devilish, never did get tamed. My mother thought I was incorrigible. She called me bad, beautiful, and selfish.
- wild garlic
- ramsons
- wild geese
- plural form of wild goose
- wild goose
- any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly
- wild goose chase
- Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase
- wild goose chases
- plural form of wild goose chase
- wild horse
- A member of the species Equus ferus (excluding Equus caballus)
- wild horse
- A feral horse
- wild horse
- An untamed horse
- wild horses
- A force not subject to human control and normally stronger than a man
Wild horses wouldn't have kept me from going to the party.
- wild horses
- plural form of wild horse
- wild pitch
- A play where the pitcher throws a non-catchable pitch and a runner advances
Jones uncorked a wild pitch, which went to the screen.
- wild purslane
- An edible vegetable and invasive weed Portulaca oleracea
- wild purslanes
- plural form of wild purslane
- wild strawberry
- The wood strawberry, Fragaria vesca
- wild turkey
- A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, from the United States and Canada
- wild turkey
- Any of various similar birds
- wild turkeys
- plural form of wild turkey
- wild type
- The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature
- wild types
- plural form of wild type
- wild-ass
- Any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
- wild-ass
- Crazy; lacking caution or certainty
That's nothing but a wild-ass rumor.
- wild-ass
- A wild ass; an uneducated or boorish person
This estimate is completely unreliable! It was produced by a wild-ass.
- wild-boar
- Attributive form of wild boar, noun
- wild-eyed
- having a glaring expression, as if mad or in terror
- wild-goose chase
- A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome
Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.
- wild-goose chase
- A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit
I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.
- wild-goose chases
- plural form of wild-goose chase
- wild-type
- Alternative spelling of wild type
- wild goosechase
- {n} a vain or very foolish pursuit
- wild and woolly
- (deyim) Uncouth or rough
- wild goose chase
- (deyim) A waste of time, a long chase without result
- wild rye
- Any of several tall grasses (genus Elymus)
- wilder
- Comparative form of wild: more wild
- wilder
- To bewilder, perplex
Is stolen abroad the wildering night,.
- wilds
- plural form of wild
- wilder
- {v} to lose, to puzzle in an unknown track
- wildly
- {a} irregularly, badly, without judgement
- wildness
- {n} savageness, fierceness, fury, rudeness
- Wild West
- untamed West, desert area in the United States that was settled by immigrants from the East Coast
- Wild West
- The Wild West is used to refer to the western part of the United States during the time when Europeans were first settling there. The western United States during the period of its settlement, especially with reference to its lawlessness. the Wild West the western part of the US in the 19th century - used especially when referring to the time before there were many laws there
- Wilder
- {i} family name; Billy Wilder (born 1906), Austrian-born American movie director who directed the movie "Some like It Hot"; Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), American author who wrote the play "Our Town
- Wilder
- American writer of novels, such as Little House on the Prairie (1935), based on her childhood on the American frontier. American writer whose works include novels, such as The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), and the theatrically innovative drama Our Town (1938). adj. Wilder Billy Samuel Wilder Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder Thornton Niven
- wild cherry
- an uncultivated cherry tree the fruit of the wild cherry tree
- wild rice
- grains of aquatic grass of North America perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
- wild rice
- the seed of a type of grass that grows in parts of North America and China. Coarse annual grass (Zizania aquatica) of the family Poaceae (or Gramineae) whose grain, now often considered a delicacy, has long been an important food of American Indians. Despite its name, the plant is not related to rice. Wild rice grows naturally in shallow water in marshes and along the shores of streams and lakes in northern central North America. Cultivated varieties are now grown in Minnesota and California. The plant, about 3-10 ft (1-3 m) tall, is topped with a large, open flower cluster. The ripened grains, dark brown to purplish-black, are slender rods 0.4-0.8 in. (1-2 cm) long
- wild rice
- zizania
- wild thing
- (Slang) sexual intercourse
- wild type
- The typical form of an organism, strain, gene, or characteristic as it occurs in nature, as distinguished from mutant forms that may result from selective breeding
- wild west
- the western United States during its frontier period
- wilder
- United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)
- wilder
- To bewilder; to perplex
- wilder
- United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)
- wilder
- United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)
- wilder
- comparative of wild
- wildest
- superlative of wild
- wildly
- in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly
- wildly
- to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree; "the storyline is wildly unrealistic" with violent and uncontrollable passion; "attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over" in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly
- wildly
- In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly
- wildly
- with violent and uncontrollable passion; "attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over"
- wildly
- In a wild manner
- wildly
- to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree; "the storyline is wildly unrealistic"
- wildly
- in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly"
- wildly
- savagely; without distinction; in an exaggerated manner; insanely, madly; with a bewildered expression
- wildly
- emphasis You use wildly to emphasize the degree, amount, or intensity of something. Reports of his drinking have been wildly exaggerated The island's hotels vary wildly. see also wild
- wildness
- a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
- wildness
- The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction
- wildness
- a state of nature a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger
- wildness
- a state of nature
- wildness
- the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
- wildness
- the quality of being wild or untamed
- wildness
- {i} condition of being wild; state of being undomesticated; state of being uncultivated
- wilds
- plural of wild
- wilds
- a wilderness