wild: significado e definições

Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants.

Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country.

Uncivilized or barbarous; savage.

Lacking supervision or restraint: wild children living in the street.

Disorderly; unruly: a wild scene in the school cafeteria.

Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious: recalled his wild youth with remorse.

Lacking regular order or arrangment; disarranged: wild locks of long hair.

Full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion: wild with jealousy; a wild look in his eye; a wild rage.

Extravagant; fantastic: a wild idea.

Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy: wild weather.

Risky; imprudent: wild financial schemes.

Impatiently eager: wild to get away for the weekend.

Informal Highly enthusiastic: just wild about the new music.

Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess.

Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic: a wild bullet.

Games Having an equivalence or value determined by the cardholder's choice: playing poker with deuces wild.

In a wild manner: growing wild; roaming wild.

A natural or undomesticated state: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.

An uninhabited or uncultivated region. Often used in the plural: the wilds of the northern steppes.

Slang To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others: "Police said that the youngsters ... were part of a larger group of teenagers who were 'wilding,'—their slang for terrorizing and bullying” ( Maclean's).