untamed

What it means

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.

   2 more examples

   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

   Synonyms: feral, indomite, tameless, feral, ferine, indomite, savage, tameless

In a sentence

The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.

Where it comes from

1. Middle Englishuntamed
2. Englishuntamed

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”).