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Wild can be an adverb, a verb, an adjective or a noun.
wild used as an adverb:
- Inaccurately; not on target.
"The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
wild used as a verb:
- To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
wild used as an adjective:
- Untamed; not domesticated.
"The island of Chincoteague is famous for its wild horses." - Unrestrained or uninhibited.
"I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall." - Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
"The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement." - Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
"Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party." - Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
"After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty." - Enthusiastic.
"I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option." - Inaccurate.
"The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
wild used as a noun:
- The undomesticated state of a wild animal
"After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild" - a wilderness
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is wild?
- Adverb usage: The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
- Adjective usage: The island of Chincoteague is famous for its wild horses.
- Adjective usage: I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
- Adjective usage: The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
- Adjective usage: Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
- Adjective usage: After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
- Adjective usage: I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
- Adjective usage: The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
- Noun usage: After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of wild are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of wild, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
