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- wild animals can be shy or aggressive when confronted by humans
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- that land has been completely wild since the owners abandoned it
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- a wild night, full of wind and rain
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- some wild claim that he was abducted by aliens
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- absurd,
- bizarre,
- crazy,
- fanciful,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- foolish,
- insane,
- nonsensical,
- preposterous,
- unreal
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- off the wall
- [slang]
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- public speakers in the park typically spout some wild ideas
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- bizarre,
- bizarro,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- curious,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- far-out,
- funky,
- funny,
- kinky,
- kooky
- (also kookie),
- odd,
- off-kilter,
- off-the-wall,
- offbeat,
- out-of-the-way,
- outlandish,
- outré,
- peculiar,
- quaint,
- queer,
- queerish,
- quirky,
- remarkable,
- rum
- [chiefly British],
- screwy,
- spaced-out,
- strange,
- wacky
- (also whacky),
- way-out,
- weird,
- weirdo
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- extraordinary,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- freak,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- phantasmagoric
- (or phantasmagorical),
- phenomenal
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- the holidays were especially wild around here this year
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- ancient traces of a wild people who lived in mountain caves
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- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- heathen,
- heathenish,
- natural,
- Neanderthal
- (or Neandertal),
- rude,
- savage,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncultivated
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- they're just wild to go on the ecotour through the Amazon rain forest
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wild
adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of wild (Entry 2 of 3)
- as soon as the doors opened, early-morning bargain hunters ran wild through the store
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nounSynonyms of wild (Entry 3 of 3)
- some animals aren't meant to live outside of the wild
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“Wild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wild. Accessed 27 Feb. 2020.
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The first known use of wild was before the 12th century
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