Meanings
comparative more untamed · superlative most untamed
- 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.
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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 457-458John 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 TimesSynonyms: feral, indomite, tameless, feral, ferine, indomite, savage, tameless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivein a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishuntamed
- 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”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀδάμαστος, ἀνήμερος
- ἀδάμαστος (adámastos)Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- ἀνήμερος (anḗmeros)Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Arabic وَحْشِيّ, بَرِّيّ
- وَحْشِيّ (waḥšiyy)Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- بَرِّيّ (barriyy)Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Catalan indòmit
- indòmitWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Danish utæmmet
- utæmmetWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Dutch ongetemd
- ongetemdWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Finnish villi, kesyttämätön
- villiWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- kesyttämätönWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Hebrew לא מבוית, פראי
- לא מבויתWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- פראיWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Hungarian szelídítetlen
- szelídítetlenWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Irish ainriata, éigeansa
- ainriataWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- éigeansaWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- fiáinWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- gan smachtWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- neamhcheansaitheWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Italian selvatico, brado
- selvaticoWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- bradoWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Latin indomitus
- indomitusWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Māori pāwhara
- pāwharaWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Norwegian Bokmål utemmet, utemma
- utemmetWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- utemmaWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- utemtWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Portuguese xucro
- xucroWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Russian ди́кий
- ди́кий (díkij)Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
Spanish indómito, chúcaro
- indómitoWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- chúcaroWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- bravíoWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- cerrilWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- cerreroWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
- díscoloWild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
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untamed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untamed
“untamed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untamed. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untamed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untamed.
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