Wilde
Literary Irish surname
Wilde is a surname, most famously associated with Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), the Irish playwright and wit known for *The Importance of Being Earnest* and *The Picture of Dorian Gray*.
His name has become shorthand for flamboyant cleverness and quotable epigrams: He fancies himself a Wilde, but his wit falls flat.
Academy's golden award
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- witClever, inventive humor
- epigramPithy, memorable saying
- aestheteLover of the beautiful
Dorian Gray · dandy · aphorism · Victorian · Irish · satirist · comedy · paradox
Brief personal moniker
- OliviaFemale given name
- PatriciaWoman's name, Latin origin
- BrandonMasculine English name
- celebrityWidely recognized public figure
Hollywood · actor · comedian · director · SNL · Blazing Saddles · Young Frankenstein · Willy Wonka
Oscar
Academy's golden award
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- witClever, inventive humor
- epigramPithy, memorable saying
Dorian Gray · aesthete · dandy · aphorism · Victorian · Irish · satirist · comedy · paradox · Salome
Kim
Brief personal moniker
celebrity · Hollywood · actor · comedian · director · SNL · Blazing Saddles · Young Frankenstein · Willy Wonka · Pryor
untamed
Not domesticated
free · undomesticated · rustic · archaic · spelling · variant · woodland · primitive
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- 19th century American and English literatureDickens, Twain, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
WildeRuskin
Victorian aesthete and essayist
Tolstoy · puritanism · didacticism · utilitarianism · philistinism
WildeThomas Bowdler
Editor who removed impropriety
puritanism · prudery · Queen Victoria · propriety · conformity
- go wildLose all self-control
- wild animalUndomesticated creature
- wild cardUnpredictable factor in play
- going wildBecoming uncontrolled or frenzied
- run wildBehave without restraint
- the wildUntamed natural areas
wild, wildly, wilderness, wilds, wildlife, wildness, Wildean, wildest, wildflower