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wildish

[wahyl-dish]

adjective

somewhat wild.

Origin:
1705–15; wild + -ish¹

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wild (waɪld)

—*adj* (foll by about)
1.	(of animals) living independently of man; 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.	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
	a. rough; untamed; barbarous
	b. (of theories, plans, etc) not fully thought out

—*adv*
16.	in a wild manner
17.	run wild
	a. to grow without cultivation or care
	b. to behave without restraint

—n
18.	(often plural) a desolate, uncultivated, or uninhabited region
19.	the wild
	a. a free natural state of living
	b. the wilderness

[Old English wilde; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wildi, Old Norse villr, Gothic wiltheis]

'wildish

—*adj*

'wildly

—*adv*

'wildness

—n

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