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Meaning in simple English
US /waɪld/
wild means: Living or growing in nature, without being kept or grown by people.
adjective
Living or growing in nature, without being kept or grown by people.
- Wild flowers grow beside the path.
- Do not feed the wild animals.
- We saw wild horses near the river.
Behaving in a way that is hard to control, often without following normal rules.
- He was a wild teenager.
- The party became too wild for me.
- Their wild behavior upset the other guests.
Very exciting, unusual, or impressive.
- That is a wild shirt!
- She showed us some wild designs.
- The concert was a wild experience.
Very strong and freely expressed, without control or limits.
- The news caused wild excitement.
- He shouted in wild rage.
- The dancers moved with wild abandon.
Able to replace any other card in a game, or other characters in a computer search.
- The joker is wild.
- In this game, all twos are wild.
- A wild character can match several different letters.
Descended from animals that have always lived without human control, rather than from escaped domestic animals.
- These horses are feral rather than wild.
- Researchers compared the wild population with domestic breeds.
- The animals come from a truly wild lineage.
adverb
Away from the intended direction or target.
- His first shot went wild.
- The ball flew wild and hit a window.
- Under pressure, she threw wild and missed her teammate.
With sound recorded separately from the filming, to be matched to the pictures later.
- We recorded the dialogue wild.
- The director asked us to record wild after filming.
- These footsteps were recorded wild for the final scene.
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