Wilder

Word WILDER
Character 6
Hyphenation wil der
Pronunciations /ˈwɪldə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Wilder"

What do we mean by wilder?

To bewilder, perplex

Synonyms and Antonyms for Wilder

  • Antonyms for wilder
  • Wilder antonyms not found!

The word "wilder" in example sentences

I like the idea of wilder with the condition that he doesn't run at the end of the term, which he probably wouldn't want to do anyway, and then Kaine runs for for the seat in 2012. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was swung into space, and all the life that had been so stationary, the booths, the lights, the men and women, the very stars went swinging with him as though to cheer him on; the horse under him galloped before, and the faster he galloped the wilder was the music and the dizzier the world. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

Theirs must be an essentially wilder, that is, less human, nature than that of larks and robins. ❋ Unknown (1865)

This album is much less about technical perfection and much more about a kind of wilder expression, which has been such a joy for me. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2010)

Before joining Jones, Monroe had done some work for "wilder" directors like Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin, and has a slightly looser, wackier style than some of the other Jones animators -- though always keeping closely to Jones's pose drawings Jones didn't give his animators as much room to improvise as some of the other directors. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)

Then she has the balls to go and say to me "when you turn eighteen, you might be 'wilder' too." ❋ Missfickles (2006)

While a Spider-Man type device is one of the gadget's "wilder" applications, the invention's enormous surface tension has potential uses as a small-scale explosive device with significant power, Vogel stated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's the second reason she had an advantage: to counter the perceived "wilder" aspects of her character inherited from the dissolute poet, young Ada was actually encouraged to study math and science. ❋ Jennifer Ouellette (2009)

Looking for a pet that is 'wilder' than a dog or a cat? ❋ Unknown (2009)

CHANDIGARH - Looking for a pet that is 'wilder' than a dog or a cat? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Chandigarh: Looking for a pet that is 'wilder' than a dog or a cat? ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is rather odd, because certain parts of Israeli society are VERY sexually conservative (with considerable emphasis on being virgin at marriage) and even the "wilder" teens are more conservative than their US counterparts (has to do with Israel's smallness: the guy you sleep with today could be a pal of the guy you decide to marry later, oops. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)

At a ball celebrating the signing of a treaty between European settlers and the tribes of the Six Nations at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1744, the leader of the delegation of settlers was dismayed to see a number of German women who danced in wilder time than any Indians. . . ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

“By turning to the animal world, black culture, and the red-light district for the sources of their cultural regeneration,” writes Erenberg, “well-to-do urbanites were searching for a way to liberate some of the repressed wilder elements, the more natural elements, that had been contained by gentility.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

A lot of places people like to live are warmed by the Gulf stream (New England, The Maritimes in Canada, Ireland, Britain, Scandinavia, France), Pull the plug and not only does interrupted heat exchange in the tropics cause those places to get even hotter, but the temperature gradients becoming "steeper" would cause weather to become even wilder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What fascinates the rest of us stay-at-homes is the insouciance with which a Wilfred Thesiger, a Freya Stark, a Patrick Leigh Fermor or a Colin Thubron will take themselves off to the wilder regions of the world with not much more in their rucksacks than a couple of clean pairs of underpants and a packet of Fortnum & Mason tea. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Armory to celebrate the sound of bounce beat - a younger, wilder, goose-bumpier strand of Washington go-go music. ❋ Chris Richards (2011)

It's what Chris Richards calls "a younger, wilder, goose-bumpier strand of Washington go-go music," and the young genre celebrated itself with an awards show over the weekend. ❋ David Malitz (2011)

Clarke's first explanation, that he was "a novelist who wanted to study the reaction of men to women in the streets" swiftly morphed, under interrogation, into the wilder claim that he was "taking the feminine garments to a lady in Gibraltar and thought he would try them on as a prank". ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

Cross Reference for Wilder

  • Wilder cross reference not found!

What does wilder mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Best IOS App Reviews