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untamed

/ʌnˈteɪmd/

untamed adjective: wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.

Adjective

untamed (comparative more untamed, superlative most untamed)

  1. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
    • The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
    • Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458

untamed meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Odia

untamed in Urdu

جنگلی

untamed in Bengali

untamed, uncontrollable
দুর্দান্ত durdanto

untamed in Malayalam

undomesticated, wild, feral
മെരുക്കാത്ത, മെരുങ്ങാത്ത, ഇണങ്ങാത്ത, ഇണക്കം വരാത്ത, മെരുക്കം വരാത്ത, വനീയ

untamed in Odia

untamed; uncontrolled
ଅବଶ୍ୟ abaśya
More languagesFewer languages
untamed in Arabic
وَحْشِيّ waḥšiyy, بَرِّيّ barriyy

Synonyms of untamed

All synonyms of untamed

Forms of untamed

comparativemore untamed
superlativemost untamed

Origin of untamed

From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- + tamed and/or untame + -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).

Words formed from untamed

Questions about untamed

What does untamed mean?
Untamed means wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
What is untamed in Urdu?
Untamed in Urdu is جنگلی. See Untamed meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is untamed?
Untamed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce untamed?
Untamed is pronounced /ʌnˈteɪmd/.

Words near untamed in the dictionary

  1. untame
  2. untameability
  3. untameable
  4. untameableness
  5. untameably
  6. untamed
  7. untamedly
  8. untamedness
  9. untameness
  10. untames
  11. untaming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untamed (page history and authors); untamed (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); দুর্দান্ত (Bengali) (page history and authors); untamed (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ଅବଶ୍ୟ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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