Dictionary

untamed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ʌnˈteɪmd/

Etymology

From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- + tamed and/or untame + -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).

Meanings

1. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
   • The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
   • Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground. 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:
   • John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon. 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

untamedly · untamedness

Relateds

untame

Synonyms

indomite · uplandish · feral · feral · untamed · wild · indomite · tameless · tameless · ferine · savage · untame

Translations (36)

fi villi (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · da utæmmet (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ga gan smacht (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ga neamhcheansaithe (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · it selvatico (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · nb utemma (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ar وَحْشِيّ (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es cerril (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · nl ongetemd (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ru ди́кий (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · grc ἀνήμερος (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · mi pāwhara (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es indómito (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · mk див (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ga fiáin (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · grc ἀδάμαστος (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · pt xucro (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es bravío (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es chúcaro (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ca indòmit (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es díscolo (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · pam lasip (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · es cerrero (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · got 𐌿𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · mk не́скротлив (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · hu szelídítetlen (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ar بَرِّيّ (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · it brado (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · he לא מבוית (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ga éigeansa (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · nb utemmet (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · he פראי (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · fi kesyttämätön (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · nb utemt (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · la indomitus (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact) · ga ainriata (Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact)