wilds

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wild/wʌɪld/

▶adjective

• 1 (of animals or plants) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated.

• 2 (of a place or region) uninhabited, uncultivated, or inhospitable.

  ■ (of people) not civilized; barbarous.

  ■ (of looks, appearance, etc.) indicating distraction.

• 3 uncontrolled; unrestrained.

  ■ informal very enthusiastic or excited.

  ■ informal very angry.

• 4 not based on sound reasoning or probability: a wild guess.

▶noun (the wild) a natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region.

■ (the wilds) a remote area.

– phrases
run wild grow or behave without restraint or discipline.
wild and woolly uncouth or rough.

– derivatives
wildish adjective,
wildly adverb,
wildness noun.

– origin OE wilde, of Gmc origin.