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untamed

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of untamed

1 existing without human habitation or cultivation

  • a dangerous and untamed land
Synonyms of untamed

natural, uncultivated, virgin, wild
Words Related to untamed

native

uninhabited, unpeopled, unsettled

overgrown, spontaneous, untended

waste

undeveloped

desolate, forlorn, howling
Near Antonyms of untamed

inhabited

developed

seminatural
Antonyms of untamed

cultivated, tamed

2 living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans

  • tried to capture the untamed horse
Synonyms of untamed

feral, savage, unbroken, undomesticated, wild, wilding
Words Related to untamed

uncontrolled, undocile, unsubdued, untrained

bestial, brutal, brute

barbarous, uncivilized
Near Antonyms of untamed

controlled, docile, familiar, semidomesticated, subdued, submissive

halterbroken, housebroken, trained

civilized, semicivilized, socialized
Antonyms of untamed

broken, busted, domestic, domesticated, gentled, tame, tamed

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