untamed
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]untamed (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.
- 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.
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[edit]Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact
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