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Definitions: Wild-eyed |
Wild-eyedAdjective1. Appearing extremely agitated; "crowded the wild-eyed animals into a truck". 2. Not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wild-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: Wild-eyedSynonyms: quixotic (adj), romantic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wild-eyed |
| English words defined with "wild-eyed": quixotic ♦ romantic. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Wild-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wild-eyed" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "wild-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | със слисан поглед, с ужасен поглед, с разярен поглед, краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, uttermost, veriest). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | aux yeux hagards, au regard fou, au regard égaré, énergumène, égaré. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ild-eyedway vilt stirrande, omöjlig (hopeless, impossible, impossibly, imppssible, unplayable), fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wizard, wonderful). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-l-w-y" | |
-1 letter: weedily, wielded, yielded. | |
-2 letters: dewily, elided, eyelid, welded, widdle, widely, wieldy. | |
-3 letters: deedy, deled, dewed, edile, elide, idled, wedel, weedy, widdy, wield, wiled, wyled, yield. | |
-4 letters: deed, deil, dele, deli, dewy, didy, died, diel, dyed, eddy, eely, eide, eyed, idle, idly, idyl, lewd, lied, lwei, weed, weel, weld, wide, wild, wile, wily, wyle, yeld. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-l-w-y" | |
+4 letters: bewilderedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 6C 64 2D 65 79 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101100 01100100 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i l d - e y e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006C 0064 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577578701571917170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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