Definition of: wild

(wīld) adjective
1. Inhabiting the forest or open field; not domesticated or tamed; living in a state of nature: a wild horse; shy and easily startled: The deer are wild.
2. Growing or produced without care or culture; not cultivated: wild flowers.
3. Being in the natural state: being without civilized inhabitants or cultivation; desert; waste: wild prairies.
4. Living without any civilization and in a rude, savage way; uncivilized: the wild men of Borneo.
5. Boisterous; in a bad sense, dissolute; prodigal; in a milder sense, frolicsome and gay.
6. Affected with or originating violent disturbances, as of the elements or of human passions; stormy; turbulent: a wild night, a wild crowd.
7. Showing reckless want of judgment; rashly imprudent; extravagant: a wild speculation.
8. Fantastically irregular or disordered; odd in arrangement or effect; strange or weird: a wild imagination, wild dress.
9. Eager and excited, as by reason of joy, fear, desire, etc.: She was wild with delight.
10. Excited to frenzy or distraction; roused to fury or desperation; crazed or crazy: The mosquitoes are driving me wild.
11. Being or going far from the proper course or from the mark aimed at; erratic; wide of the mark: a wild ball, a wild guess.
12. In some card games, having its value arbitrarily determined by the dealer or holder: to play poker with fours wild.
13. Slang a Terrific; great: a wild party. b Showy; jazzy: a wild necktie. See synonyms under ABSURD, BLEAK¹, FIERCE, INSANE, ROMANTIC, TURBULENT, VIOLENT, WANTON.
—noun An uninhabited or uncultivated place; a waste; wilderness.
—the wild The wilderness; also, the free, natural, wild life: the call of the wild.
—adverb
1. Wildly.
2. Without control; unrestrainedly: The locomotive is running wild. [OE wilde]
—wild′ly adverb
—wild′ness noun