Meaning & use
feral
Wild, especially having escaped from domestication and returned to a natural, untamed state.
See it in a sentence
A colony of feral cats lived behind the abandoned warehouse for years.
The once-tame horses turned feral after being released into the open plains.
A note on using this word
Feral specifically describes animals that were once domesticated but now live wild, unlike wild, which can describe any untamed creature.
Words with a similar meaning
wilduntamed
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Words with an opposite meaning
tamedomesticated
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