wildness
野性,狂野性,狂野,野生
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wild·er, wild·est.
- : living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- : growing or produced without cultivation or the care of humans, as plants, flowers, fruit, or honey: wild cherries.
- : uncultivated, uninhabited, or waste: wild country.
- : uncivilized or barbarous: wild tribes.
- : of unrestrained violence, fury, intensity, etc.; violent; furious: wild strife; wild storms.
- : characterized by or indicating violent feelings or excitement, as actions or a person's appearance: wild cries; a wild look.
- : frantic or distracted; crazy: to drive someone wild.
- : violently or uncontrollably affected: wild with rage; wild with pain.
- : undisciplined, unruly, or lawless: a gang of wild boys.
- : unrestrained, untrammeled, or unbridled: wild enthusiasm.
- : disregardful of moral restraints as to pleasurable indulgence: He repented his wild youth.
- : unrestrained by reason or prudence: wild schemes.
Phrases
- wild about, be
- wild card
- wild goose chase
- wild horses couldn't drag me
- wild oats
- wild pitch
- go hog wild
- go wilding
- run amok (wild)
- sow one's wild oats
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Look for aromas of jasmine and roses just opening to release their scent, followed by flavors of wild berries and herbs.
Byrnes’ team tested that idea by gluing data loggers onto wild Sunda colugos in Singapore and recording almost 260 glides among four individuals.
A shorter than usual shopping season, last-mile shipping uncertainty, and ongoing health and safety concerns are just a few of the factors driving wild shifts in consumer behavior in the lead-up to holiday season 2020.
Though there aren’t many of them, the tigers of the delta are one of the largest wild populations in the world.
Then there’s the wild method, which requires a bit of playing with fire.
I hid out for weeks in my wilderness, now just a small vulnerable island of wildness, but at the time it felt huge.
Probably not for the bird who has just been gassed “to promote wildness.”
Ybarra had also pondered the allure of this kind of wildness.
He used wildness and inconsistency as his own art form; random bucket spills of paint on the canvas into a worthless mess.
Even in the middle of a big urban area, the river valleys had a wildness that reminded him of home in Alabama.
He brings out all their power, brilliancy and careering wildness, and makes the greatest sensation of them.
The character might grow wild, savage too in a sense, but with a human wildness one could understand and deal with.