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wilde¹

adjective

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of wild

Wilde²

  • /ˈwaɪld/
  • [ˈwaɪə̯ɫd]

Sounds like wild, wiled, Wild, Wylde, whiled (some accents) · Rhymes with -aɪld

proper noun Wildes

  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre. A dread sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry [sic] gates / Keats and Yeats on your side / While Wilde is on mine

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Closest in meaning: wild, savage, untamed, feral, unruly, lawless, barbarous, primitive, rough, chaotic, fierce, reckless, rampant, uncontrolled, disorderly, tempestuous

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@misc{wilde_2026,
  title = {wilde},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wilde},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}