📒 living or growing in natural conditions; not kept in a house or on a farm
- wild animals/birds/flowers
- wild salmon
- wild mushrooms/rice
📒 in its natural state; not changed by people
- the destruction of forests and other wild lands
- wild moorland
- The island is a wild and lonely place.
📒 having no discipline or control
- The boy is wild and completely out of control.
- He had a wild look in his eyes.
- a woman with wild hair
📒 full of very strong feeling
- The crowd went wild.
- It makes me wild (= very angry) to see such waste.
- Everything about her drove him wild (= made him like her very much).
📒 not carefully planned; not sensible or accurate
- He made a wild guess at the answer.
- wild accusations
📒 very good, pleasant or exciting
- We had a wild time in New York.
📒 very enthusiastic about somebody/something
- She's totally wild about him.
- She was absolutely wild about him.
- I'm not wild about the idea.
📒 affected by storms and strong winds
- a wild night
- The sea was wild.
📒 far more, better, etc. than you could ever have imagined or hoped for
📒 used to say that something has happened in a way that somebody did not expect at all
- Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd meet him again.
📒 to grow or develop freely without any control
- The ivy has run wild.
- Let your imagination run wild and be creative.
- I just let my imagination run wild and come up with as many ideas as I can.
📒 if children or animals run wild, they behave as they like because nobody is controlling them
- Those boys have been allowed to run wild.
- They annoy the neighbours because they let their children run wild.
📒 to go through a period of wild behaviour while young, especially having a lot of romantic or sexual relationships
- He wants to leave home, sow his wild oats and learn about life.
📒 used to say that nothing would persuade somebody to go somewhere or do something they do not want to do