Wild vs Brave - What's the difference?

wild | brave |

As a proper noun wild

is for a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.

As a verb brave is

wild

English

Adjective

(er)

Untamed; not domesticated.

* Shakespeare

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

* Milton

The woods and desert caves, / With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.

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(senseid) Unrestrained or uninhibited.

Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

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Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

Enthusiastic.

Inaccurate.

Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

a wild roadstead

(nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.

(mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Antonyms

* (mathematics) tame

Derived terms

* in the wild * walk on the wild side * wild allspice * wild and woolly * wild animal * wild balsam apple * wild basil * wild blueberry * wild boar * wild bugloss * wild camomile * wild card * wildcard * wildcarrot * wild cat * wildcat * wildcat strike * wildcatter * wild celery * wild cherry * wild child * wildcrafting * wild cumin * wild drake * wildebeest * wild elder * wilden * wilder * wilderness * wildest * wild-eyed * wildfire * wildflower * wildfowl * wild geranium * wild ginger * wild goose * wild goose chase * wild-goose chase * wild hyacinth * wilding * wild Irishman * wildish * wild land * wild licorice * wildlife * wildly * wild mammee * wild marjoram * wild mustard * wildness * wild oat * wild pieplant * wild pigeon * wild pink * wild pitch * wild plantain * wild plum * wild purslane * wild rice * wild rye * wild Spaniard * wild strawberry * wildstyle * wild turkey * wild vanilla * Wild West * wildwood

Adverb

(en adverb)

Inaccurately; not on target.

The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.

Noun

(en noun)

The undomesticated state of a wild animal

After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild

(chiefly, in the plural) a wilderness

* 1730–1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland

Thus every good his native wilds impart

Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;

And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise

Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.

Verb

(en verb)

To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

* 1989 , David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours , New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:

*:: ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".

*:: "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...

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brave

English

Adjective

(er)

Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:

*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.

*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :

*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.

(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.

*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)

*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.

Making a fine show or display.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.

* (1558-1592)

*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.

*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Synonyms

* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See also

Antonyms

* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weak

Noun

(en noun)

A Native American warrior.

A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

* Dryden

Hot braves like thee may fight.

A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

* Shakespeare

Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .

Verb

To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.

* (rfdate), (John Dryden)

These I can brave , but those I can not bear.

* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2

but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.

After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.

(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

* (rfdate), Shakespeare

Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.

Derived terms

* bravely * bravery * bravure 1000 English basic words ----