untamedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈteɪmd/, U.S. /ˌənˈteɪmd/ Not tamed (in various senses); wild; unsubdued.
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the mind > emotion > [adjective] > unsuppressed
untameda1340
unquencheda1586
unsuppressed1814
the world > animals > domestic animal > [adjective] > untamed
wildc725
untemeda1000
savagea1275
ramagec1300
untameda1340
untamea1382
ramageousa1398
tameless1597
unreclaimed1614
indomite1617
immansuete1656
feral1659
myall1848
wilding1853
maroon1890
undomesticated1972
the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated
wildc725
untameda1340
unsownc1374
unplanteda1382
savagea1500
natural1526
self-sowed1597
self-sown1608
maiden1616
voluntary1620
spontaneous1665
uncultivated1697
wilding1697
volunteer1794
uncultured1804
agrarian1851
self-raised1852
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > not tamed
untameda1340
untamea1382
ramageousa1398
haggard1566
ramage1567
tameless1597
undauntoned1609
unmeekened1612
unreclaimed1614
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated > not
untameda1340
unhusbanded1538
undressed1611
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(b)1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 205 Which thing rightly..weied would bridle these vntamed affections of ours.1600 A. Munday et al. First Pt. True Hist. Sir I. Old-castle sig. I4 There dwell vntamed thoughts that hardly stoupe, To such abasement.1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata To Rdr. 11 His wilde untamed accustomary life.1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 177 With untam'd Fury let Medea glow.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxvii. 38 Their native fierceness was yet untamed.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlv. 45 Monsters, whose like they almost seemed to be in their wildness and their untamed air.1859 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 385 The human breast..Throbs thus unawed, Untamed and unquiescent.(c)1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 539 The perries which are pressed out of wilde peares, and all such as are vnhusbanded, vntamed.1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea A 8 b The windes and seas continued still their course,..vntam'd [seemed] their force.1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. xiv. 23 The Winds arise And work the Seas untam'd.1796 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in Poems Var. Subj. 10 Where Susquehannah pours his untam'd stream.1818 H. H. Milman Samor viii. 130 The strong freedom of thy untam'd locks.1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 53 The untamed Forests and dark brute Powers of Nature.1865 F. Parkman Pioneers of France in New World p. x An untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxiv. 11 He leris..sothfastnes thurgh þe whilke he is vntamed.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxi. 18 Y am lerned as a ȝungling vntamed.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. lxviii. 831 Suche asses be grete..and vntamyd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxx. 8 An vntamed horse wylbe harde.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. i. sig. M6 Bacchus, that with furious might All th'East before vntam'd did ouerronne. View more context for this quotation
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. p. ii Of vntamed beasts, the most were wilde Asses.
1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iv. iii. sig. D4 Base Amarus..more beastly rude Then untam'd Indians.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 404 Untam'd and fierce the Tiger still remains.
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 75 Like some strong watch-tower nodding o'er the deep..Untam'd he stood.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh iii. 226 He..there, untam'd, the approaching conq'ror waits.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 254 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A door for the inroads of untamed swine.
Derivatives
unˈtamedly adv.
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1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Seneramente,..wildly, untam'dly, outrageously.
unˈtamedness n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun]
unrulinessc1400
wildnessc1400
ramagec1485
untamedness1592
unruliment1596
uncomeliness1607
unreclaimedness1611
infrenation1623
indocility1648
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > undomesticated > state or condition
wildshipc1275
wildnessc1440
untamedness1592
the (also a) state of nature1798
untameness1871
ferality1885
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun]
brathc1175
reighshipc1275
airc1300
ragec1330
sturdinessc1384
violencea1387
fierceness1435
vehemencyc1487
furiosity1509
fiercetya1513
bremeness?1529
boistousness1530
vehemence1535
bruteness1538
violency1538
violentness1544
vehementness1561
wrath1579
fury1585
torture1605
keenness?1606
ragingness1621
stiffness1623
rapt1632
tempestuousness1648
boisterousnessa1650
rampancy1652
boisture1667
untamedness1727
paroxysm1893
storminess1894
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea ii. v. sig. D1v Curse..the vntamednes of thy affections.
1612 H. Ainsworth Bk. Psalmes Englished with Annot. xl. 2 The untamednesse of the tongue.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 195 If the horse be kindly used, and taken off his untamedness by degrees,..he is made a horse for ever.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Wildness, Untamedness, Furiousness.
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