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Wildness

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Noun

1. abandon, wildness

a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

Example Sentences:
'the wildness of his anger'

2. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness

the property of being wild or turbulent

Example Sentences:
'the storm's violence'

3. wildness

an unruly disposition to do as one pleases

Example Sentences:
'Liza had always had a tendency to wildness'
'the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention'

4. wildness

an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wildness

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adjective
1. 
(of animals) living independently of humans; not domesticated or tame
2. 
(of plants) growing in a natural state; not cultivated
3. 
uninhabited or uncultivated; desolate
a wild stretch of land
4. 
living in a savage or uncivilized way
wild tribes
5. 
lacking restraint
wild merriment
6. 
of great violence or intensity
a wild storm
7. 
disorderly or chaotic
wild thoughts
wild talk
8. 
dishevelled; untidy
wild hair
9. 
in a state of extreme emotional intensity
wild with anger
10. 
reckless
wild speculations
11. 
not calculated; random
a wild guess
12. 
unconventional; fantastic; crazy
wild friends
13. (postpositive; foll by about) informal
intensely enthusiastic or excited
14. 
(of a card, such as a joker or deuce in some games) able to be given any value the holder pleases
jacks are wild
15.  wild and woolly
adverb
16. 
in a wild manner
17.  run wild
noun
18. (often plural)
a desolate, uncultivated, or uninhabited region
19.  the wild
noun
Jonathan. ?1682–1725, British criminal, who organized a network of thieves, highwaymen, etc, while also working as an informer: said to have sent over a hundred men to the gallows before being hanged himself

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Wildness

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adjective
1. 
living or growing in its original, natural state and not normally domesticated or cultivated
wild flowers, wild animals
2. 
not lived in or cultivated; overgrown, waste, etc.
wild land
3. 
not civilized; savage
a wild tribe
4. 
not easily restrained or regulated; not controlled or controllable; unruly, rough, lawless, etc.
wild children
5. 
characterized by a lack of social or moral restraint; unbridled in pursuing pleasure; dissolute, orgiastic, etc.
a wild rake, a wild party
6. 
violently disturbed; turbulent; stormy
a wild seacoast
7. 
in a state of intense excitement
; specif.,
a. 
eager or enthusiastic, as with desire or anticipation
wild with delight
b. 
angered, frenzied, frantic, crazed, etc.
wild with desperation
8. 
in a state of disorder, disarrangement, confusion, etc.
wild hair
9. 
fantastically impractical; visionary
a wild scheme
10. 
showing a lack of sound judgment; reckless; imprudent
a wild wager
11. 
going wide of the mark aimed at; missing the target
a wild swing in boxing
12.  Slang
extraordinary; remarkable
a wild success
13.  Cards
having any value specified by the holder
said of a card
deuces, when wild in poker, may be counted as aces, kings, etc.
adverb
14. 
in a wild manner; wildly; without aim or control
to shoot wild
noun
15.  [usually pl.]
a wilderness or wasteland

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wildness

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adj. wild·er, wild·est
1. Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants.
2. Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country.
3. Uncivilized or barbarous.
4.
a. Lacking supervision or restraint: wild children living in the street.
b. Disorderly; unruly: a wild scene in the school cafeteria.
c. Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious: recalled his wild youth with remorse.
5. Lacking regular order or arrangement; disarranged: wild locks of long hair.
6. Full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion: wild with jealousy; a wild look in his eye; a wild rage.
7. Extravagant; fantastic: a wild idea.
8. Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy: wild weather.
9. Risky; imprudent: wild financial schemes.
10.
a. Impatiently eager: wild to get away for the weekend.
b. Informal Highly enthusiastic: just wild about the new music.
11. Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess.
12. Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic: a wild bullet.
13. Games Having an equivalence or value determined by the cardholder's choice: playing poker with deuces wild.
adv.
In a wild manner: growing wild; roaming wild.
n.
1. A natural or undomesticated state: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.
2. often wilds A region that is mostly uninhabited or uncultivated: the wilds of the northern steppes.
intr.v. wild·ed, wild·ing, wilds
To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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