A wild primitive state untouched by civilization:
— He lived in the wild.
— They collected mushrooms in the wild.

synonyms: natural state, state of nature.

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country^†; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold^†, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau etc. (level) 213; campagna^†; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla [U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega [Sp.].    meadow, mead, haugh^†, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat^†, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan^†, agostadero^†.    ... show more

Dutch: natuur, wild

A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition:
— It was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers.

synonym: wilderness.

Roget 169: unproductiveness etc. adj.; infertility, sterility, infecundity^†; masturbation; impotence etc. 158; unprofitableness etc. (inutility) 645.    waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.    ... show more

Dutch: wildernisgebied, wildernis
Polish: pustać

Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control.

Roget 954: intemperate, inabstinent^†; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.    brutish, crapulous^†, swinish, piggish.    Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.    ... show more

Roget 458: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning^†; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless^†, listless etc. (indifferent) 866; blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory^†; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting^†, ecervele [Fr.]; offhand; dizzy, muzzy^†, brainsick^†; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole^†, highflying; heedless, careless etc. (neglectful) 460.    inconsiderate, thoughtless.    absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed etc. (attentive) 457; daydreaming, in a reverie etc. n.; off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^†; napping; dreamy; caught napping.    disconcerted, distracted, put out etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 473: improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation; wild [Coll.], far out [Coll.], out of sight [Coll.], outtasight [Coll.], heavy [Coll.].    rare etc. (infrequent) 137; unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable^†; incredible etc. 485; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable) 83.    ... show more

Roget 623: unsought, unattempted; avoiding etc. v.; neutral, shy of etc. (unwilling) 603; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.    ... show more

Roget 699: unskillful etc. 698; inexpert; bungling etc. v.; awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.    adrift, at fault.    inapt, unapt; inhabile [Fr.]; untractable^†, unteachable; giddy etc. (inattentive) 458; inconsiderate etc. (neglectful) 460; stupid etc. 499; inactive etc. 683; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.    unaccustomed, unused, untrained etc. 537, uninitiated, unconversant etc. (ignorant) 491^†; shiftless; unstatesmanlike.    unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish etc. (inconsistent) 608.    ... show more

Roget 863: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating^†; heedless; careless etc. (neglectful) 460; without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy etc. (inattentive) 458; wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.    hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained^†; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive.    overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty^†, jaunty, free and easy.    off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^†.    ... show more

In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated:
— Wild geese.
— Edible wild plants.

synonym: untamed.

Dutch: ongetemd
Polish: dziki

In a state of extreme emotion.

Deviating widely from an intended course.

of colors or sounds Intensely vivid or loud:
— Wild colors.
— Wild shouts.

synonym: violent.

Without a basis in reason or fact.

synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted.

Polish: bezzasadny, bezpodstawny, nieuzasadniony, niezasadny

Talking or behaving irrationally.

synonym: raving mad.

Involving risk or danger:
— A wild financial scheme.

synonyms: hazardous, risky.

Polish: śmiały, brawurowy

Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish.

synonym: fantastic.

Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate:
— A godforsaken wilderness crossroads.
— A wild stretch of land.

synonyms: godforsaken, waste.

Polish: zapadły, głuchy

Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with.

synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga.

Roget 503: insane, mad, lunatic, loony [Coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene^†, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied^†, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated^†; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched [Coll.]; off one's head.    [behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.    [behavior somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic^†, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered etc. (uncertain) 475.    mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind etc. n.; touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull [Coll.], far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.    fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped^†, hyppish^†; spaced out [Coll.].    imbecile, silly, etc. 499.    ... show more

Without civilizing influences:
— Wild tribes.

synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    dowdy; slovenly etc. (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876; uncourtly^†; uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.    untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.    unkempt.    uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite^†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.    obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.    particular; affected etc. 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.    ... show more

Polish: barbarzyński, niecywilizowany, nieucywilizowany

of the elements As if showing violent anger.

synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous.

Roget 825: excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung; irritable etc. (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.    feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed.    unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing etc. v.. startlish^†, mettlesome, high-mettled^†, skittish.    vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.    overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid etc. (eager) 865.    rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary^†, boisterous.    impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless^†, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.    excited, exciting etc. 824.    ... show more

Roget 900: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross etc. (irascible) 901; Achillean^†; sulky, etc. 901.1; bitter, virulent; acrimonious etc. (discourteous) etc. 895; violent etc. 173.    warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage.    offended etc. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.    fierce, wild, rageful^†, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless etc. 919.    flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.    ... show more

Roget 824: excited etc. v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir, sparkling; in a quiver etc. 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.    flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse^†, demoniacal.    lost, eperdu [Fr.], tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.    stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes.    exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting etc. v.; impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing etc. (painful) 830; telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.    piquant etc. (pungent) 392; spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant^†, tantalizing.    eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.    ... show more

Roget 173: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.    turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging etc. v.; troublous^†, riotous; tumultuary^†, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied etc. (insane) 503.    desperate etc. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.    fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.    savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.    excited etc. v.; unquelled^†, unquenched, unextinguished^†, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable^†; uncontrollable, incontrollable^†; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.    spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating etc. v.; volcanic, meteoric; stormy etc. (wind) 349.    ... show more

In an uncontrolled and rampant manner.

synonym: rampantly.

In a wild or undomesticated manner.