| 单词 | wild |
| 释义 | wild (once / 38 pages) 1adjadvn 2adjadv 3adj 4adj 5adj 6adj Something that's wild lives in nature and isn't tamed. Your pet poodle isn't wild, but the groundhog that lives under your garden shed is wild. An animal or plant in its native habitat is wild, like a wild dingo or a wild strawberry. An untamed bit of nature, like your overgrown back yard, or a stormy ocean, is also wild. If a person is wild, he might be unrestrained, crazy, or even enthusiastic — like someone who's wild about cabaret music. The term "to run wild" means to grow unrestrained, undisciplined, like a wild animal or an imagination that isn't held back by rules. WORD FAMILYwild: semi-wild, wildest, wildly, wildness, wilds+/wildness: wildnesses USAGE EXAMPLESEveryone, men included, seems to be in “Where the Wild Things Are” furs; coat check looks like the Bronx Zoo. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Paid events are regularly organized in Poland for foreigners who want to hunt deer, wild boar, hares or other small wild animals. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) For other types of seafood, farm-raised stocks remain relatively stable when wild catches decline. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated wild geese edible wild plants Syn|Ant untamed feral, ferine, savage wild and menacing semi-wildpartially wild unbrokennot subdued or trained for service or use undomesticatednot domesticated intractablenot tractable; difficult to manage or mold tame, tamed brought from wildness into a domesticated state broken, broken intamed or trained to obey cultivatedno longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use docile, gentleeasily handled or managed domestic, domesticatedconverted or adapted to domestic use tamedbrought from wildness manipulable, tractableeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded) 2adj without civilizing influences wild tribes Syn barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized noncivilised, noncivilized not having a high state of culture and social development 3adj located in a dismal or remote area; desolate a wild stretch of land Syn godforsaken, waste inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth 4adv in a wild or undomesticated manner growing wild roaming wild 5n a wild primitive state untouched by civilization he lived in the wild they collected mushrooms in the wild Syn|Hypo|Hyper natural state, state of nature crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness a wild or unrefined state state the way something is with respect to its main attributes 6n a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition 2Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper wilderness Never-Never the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country barren, waste, wasteland an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation busha large wilderness area frontiera wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country heath, heathlanda tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation outbackthe bush country of the interior of Australia geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region a demarcated area of the Earth 1adj marked by extreme lack of restraint or control wild talk wild parties Syn|Ant unquiet characterized by unrest or disorder chaotic, disorderlycompletely unordered and unpredictable and confusing delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrainedmarked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion frenzied, manicaffected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason unsubduednot brought under control tame very restrained or quiet quietcharacterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity subduedquieted and brought under control 2adj in a state of extreme emotion wild with anger wild with grief Syn passionate having or expressing strong emotions 3adj talking or behaving irrationally Syn raving mad insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement 4adj (of the elements) as if showing violent anger Syn angry, furious, raging, tempestuous stormy (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion 5adv in an uncontrolled and rampant manner 3Syn rampantly 1adj deviating widely from an intended course a wild bullet he threw a wild pitch Syn uncontrolled not being under control; out of control 2adj without a basis in reason or fact Syn baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted unsupported not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid 3adj fanciful and unrealistic; foolish 4Syn fantastic unrealistic not realistic adj involving risk or danger 5a wild financial scheme Syn hazardous, risky dangerous, unsafe involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm adj intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with 6Syn crazy, dotty, gaga enthusiastic having or showing great excitement and interest adj (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud wild colors wild shouts Syn violent intense possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree |
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