Pet and Wild

Pet

Pet adjective - Granted special treatment or attention.

Wild is an antonym for pet.

Nearby Words: petted, petting

Wild

Wild adjective - Living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans.

Pet is an antonym for wild.

Nearby Words: wildly, wilding, wilde

Both words in one sentence

  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The Lindauzi call their pet humans dogs and wild humans wolves.
  • Video Game / Ether Saga Odyssey They go from trying to kill you in the wild to devoting thier lives to save you as a pet. What.
  • Film / The Monuments Men Genre Blindness: Jean-Claude is this when he stops the car to pet that wild horse and there's a group of enemy soldiers hiding in the undergrowth.
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