Wild vs Mad - What's the difference?

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As a proper noun wild

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

As a pronoun mad 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.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

(senseid) Unrestrained or uninhibited.

Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=August 7, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Man City 2-3 Man Utd , passage=City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.}}

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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mad

English

Adjective

(madder)

Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

* Shakespeare

I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad .

Angry, annoyed.

* , chapter=6

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

Wildly confused or excited.

to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred

* Bible, Jer. 1. 88

It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

* 1787: The Fair Syrian, R. Bage, p.314

My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.

Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

(slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; , much or many.

(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Usage notes

While within the United States and Canada, the word mad'' ''does'' generally imply ''anger'' rather than insanity, such usage is still considered informal. Furthermore, if one is described as having "gone mad" or "went mad", this will unquestionably be taken as denoting ''insanity''''', and not anger. Meanwhile, if one "is mad at" something or has "been mad about" something, it will be assumed that they are '''''angered'' rather than insane. In addition, if the word is understood as being used literally, it will most likely be taken as meaning "insane". Also, in addition to the former, such derivatives as "madness", "madman", "madhouse" and "madly" ''purely denote insanity, irrespective of whether one is in the Commonwealth or in the United States. Lastly, within Commonwealth countries other than Canada, mad'' typically implies the ''insane'' or ''crazy'' sense more so than the ''angry sense.

Synonyms

* (insane) See also * (angry) See also * wicked, mighty, kinda, , hella.

Adverb

(-)

(slang, New England, New York, and, UK, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

He was driving mad slow.

It's mad hot today.

He seems mad keen on her.

Synonyms

* hella; helluv;

Derived terms

* mad as a hatter * madden * madding * madhouse * madly

Verb

(madd)

To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

* c''. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), '' , Act V Scene 5:

This musick mads me, let it sound no more.

*, I.2.4.iv:

He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].

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