wild

adjective

1) ((of animals) not tamed: wolves and other wild animals.) divji

2) ((of land) not cultivated.) divji

3) (uncivilized or lawless; savage: wild tribes.) divji

4) (very stormy; violent: a wild night at sea; a wild rage.) divji

5) (mad, crazy, insane etc: wild with hunger; wild with anxiety.) blazen

6) (rash: a wild hope.) divji

7) (not accurate or reliable: a wild guess.) na slepo

8) (very angry.) divji

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- wildly

- wildness
- wildfire: spread like wildfire
- wildfowl
- wild-goose chase
- wildlife
- in the wild
- the wilds
- the Wild West

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1.

adjective (wildly adverb)

divji, neukročen, neudomačen; neciviliziran, barbarski, neizobražen; plašen, plah, plašljiv (divjačina); neobljuden, pust, neobdelan (zemlja); neurejen, zmršen, skuštran (lasje); neobrzdan, razuzdan; svojeglav; figuratively razburjen, besen; buren, silovit; brezumen, nor, strasten; slučajen, naključen, nesmotrn, nepremišljen; colloquially hlepeč po, divji (nor) na

a wild guess — čisto, golo ugibanje

wild honey — divji, gozdni med

a wild life — divje, razuzdano življenje

wild pain — divja, blazna bolečina

wild orgies — divje orgije

a wild shot — strel na slepo (tjavdan)

in wild — disorder v divjem neredu

wild with fear — brezumen (nor) od strahu

to drive s.o. wild — spraviti koga v besnost, razbesniti koga

the horses were wild to start — konji so nestrpno čakali na start

to settle down after a wild youth — umiriti se po vihravi mladosti;

2.

adverb

divje; nepremišljeno, brez glave; nesmotrno, tjavdan

to run wild — divje rasti, figuratively rasti brez nadzora

to shoot wild — streljati na slepo, brez cilja

to talk wild — zmedeno govoriti

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noun

divjina; (peščena) pustinja, puščava; neobdelana zemlja

the call of the wild — klic divjine