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Synonyms for wild
Synonyms for wild: waste, risky, angry, fantastic, groundless, overgrown, raving, uncivilized and violent. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 9 synonyms for wild
Interchangeable with wild, one per sense
Audited under wild's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wild carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wild as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- angryangry is an adjective in the sense "as if showing violent anger"
- fantasticfantastic is an adjective in the sense "fanciful and unrealistic"
- groundlessgroundless is an adjective in the sense "without a basis in reason or fact"
- overgrownovergrown is an adjective in the sense "covered with excessive, unchecked plant growth"
- ravingraving is an adjective in the sense "talking or behaving irrationally"
- uncivilizeduncivilized is an adjective in the sense "without civilizing influences"
- violentviolent is an adjective in the sense "intensely vivid or loud"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under wild and seven under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
located in a dismal or remote area
A wild stretch of land.
wild in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The hikers pitched their tent on a wild hillside far from any village or road.
- Developers avoided the wild edge of the property because no utilities reached that far out.
How it behaves: In this sense wild typically modifies a noun for terrain or land, such as stretch, hillside, or coast, in descriptive or narrative prose rather than technical writing.
The true synonym
waste
Same sentence, swapped: A waste stretch of land.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for wild in the sentence quoted.
- fantastic
- angry
- ridiculous
involving risk or danger
A wild financial scheme.
The true synonym
risky
Same sentence, swapped: A risky financial scheme.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where wild stands in the sentence above.
- waste
- ridiculous
- animal
Where wild turns up in the game
wild is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where wild is the trap
- fantasticadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wonderful, in the sense "extraordinarily good or great", with wild sitting one tile away.
- incredibleadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is unbelievable, in the sense "beyond belief or understanding", so wild is there to be ruled out.
- propertynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is place, in the sense "any area set aside for a particular purpose", with wild sitting one tile away.
- stagenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is point, in the sense "a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process", and wild is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play wild
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wild reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other places words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wild carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.