wildest
- 1Superlative of wild.
The documentary captured some of the wildest landscapes left on the continent.
Not even in his wildest dreams had he imagined winning the championship.
Note
A regular superlative, built by adding -est to wild with no change to the stem. It fits the gradable senses of wild best: untamed country, unrestrained feeling, raucous behavior. It sits awkwardly with the biologist's "wild type," which names a category rather than a degree. A favorite frame is "some of the wildest": H. C. Casserley uses it in 1953 for the remote Donegal country a railway line ran through.
wildest is a form of wild
wild, adjective: Living or growing in a natural state, not tamed or raised by humans: whether native to the wild or having reverted after escaping domestic life. Full entry
- Spelling
- wild → wildest: add -est
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