UNTAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untamed mean? 

• UNTAMED (adjective)
  The adjective UNTAMED has 1 sense:

1. in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated

  Familiarity information: UNTAMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated

Synonyms:

untamed; wild

Context example:

edible wild plants

Similar:

feral; ferine; savage (wild and menacing)

semi-wild (partially wild)

unbroken (not subdued or trained for service or use)

undomesticated (not domesticated)

Also:

intractable (not tractable; difficult to manage or mold)

Attribute:

wildness (an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature)

 Context examples 

Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was untamed, wild, and in secret ways her vanity was touched by the fact that he came so mildly to her hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)