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adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
adj
noun
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- using or containing too many words
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
noun
adj
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- not based on fact or investigation
- showing curiosity
- not financially safe or secure
noun
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
noun
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
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verb
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- an unstable construction with playing cards
- (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
- A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
- (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
noun
- Obscure thoughts and speculations.
- (religion, philosophy) A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
- A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
- The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
- obscure or irrational thought
- a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
adj
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
noun
verb
- (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- (rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- place a bet on
- propel with a pole
- kick the ball
noun
- A wild guess.
- (nautical) A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
- The indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A bet or wager.
- (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs.
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground
- an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
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adj
adv
noun
noun
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- ludicrously odd
- extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
- existing in fancy only
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
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verb
adj
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- associated with academia or an academy
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
noun
- an educator who works at a college or university
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
noun
name
noun
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
- A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
- (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
- (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
noun
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
name
adj
noun
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- an unstable construction with playing cards
- (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
- A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
- (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
noun
- Obscure thoughts and speculations.
- (religion, philosophy) A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
- A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
- The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
- obscure or irrational thought
- a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
noun
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
noun
name
verb
- (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- (rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- place a bet on
- propel with a pole
- kick the ball
noun
- A wild guess.
- (nautical) A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
- The indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A bet or wager.
- (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs.
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground
- an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
verb
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
verb
- (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- (rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- place a bet on
- propel with a pole
- kick the ball
noun
- A wild guess.
- (nautical) A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
- The indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A bet or wager.
- (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs.
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground
- an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
adj
noun
adj
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- using or containing too many words
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
noun
adj
- Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
- Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
- Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
- not based on fact or investigation
- showing curiosity
- not financially safe or secure
adj
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
noun
adj
adv
noun
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
- ludicrously odd
- extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance
- existing in fancy only
- Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful.
- Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
adj
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- associated with academia or an academy
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
noun
- an educator who works at a college or university
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.