unwild
unwild adjective: not wild.
Adjective
unwild (comparative more unwild, superlative most unwild)
- Not wild.
Verb
unwild (third-person singular simple present unwilds, present participle unwilding, simple past and past participle unwilded)
- To make something not wild; to tame, civilize.
- "We are unwilded almost from birth," says Marc Bekoff author of Rewilding Our Hearts and professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Bekoff says it's natural for humans to want to live more in sync with their natural surroundings.2014 November 25, Natalie DiBlasio, quoting Marc Bekoff, “Wild things: More 9-5'ers 'undoing domestication'”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020
- MacAskill is tall and sturdily built, with an untidy mop of dark-blond hair that had grown during the pandemic to messianic lengths. In an effort to unwild himself for reëntry, he had recently reduced it to a dimension better suited to polite society.2022 August 28, “The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2023
- Synonyms:
- dewild
Synonyms of unwild
Forms of unwild
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unwild |
| superlative | most unwild |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | unwilds |
| present participle | unwilding |
| past participle | unwilded |
| past | unwilded |
Origin of unwild
From un- + wild.
Questions about unwild
- What does unwild mean?
- Unwild means not wild.
- What part of speech is unwild?
- Unwild can be an adjective or a verb.
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