Defining the Wild wild, adj. and n. Oxford definition 1. Living in a state of nature, and related uses. 1. Of an animal: living in a state of nature; not tame, not domesticated: opposed to tame. 2. Of a plant (or flower): growing in a state of nature; not cultivated. 3. Produced or yielded by wild animals or plants; produced naturally without cultivation; sometimes, having the characteristic (usually inferior) quality of such productions. 4. Of a place or region: uncultivated or uninhabitated; hence, waste, desert, desolate. 5. Of persons (or their attributes): uncivilized, savage, uncultured, rude; also, not accepting, or resisting, the constituted government; rebellious. 6. Not under, or submitting to, control or restraint; taking, or disposed to take, one’s own way; uncontrolled. 7. Not submitting to moral control; taking one’s own way in defiance of moral obligation or authority; unruly, insubordinate; wayward, self-willed. 8. Fierce, savage, ferocious; furious, violent, destructive, cruel.
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