wild story
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4.6
- noun
- Informal
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historia increíble
- Everyone at the campfire shared their wild stories about strange encounters in the woods.
- telling wild story
A wild, wild story where real estate actually saved your bacon.
- A wild, wild story where real estate actually saved your bacon.
- It's because it's a pretty wild story, but I love the details.
- But it's just, it's a, it's, it's a wild story because you have boats getting busted for smuggling GPUs and things a couple months ago.
- What is the wildest thing or like wildest story that you've got from running like a club, because I feel like you must see some sights.
- Hi, my name is Cynthia Areevo and I'm going to be doing some ASMR as I take you through some of the wild stories of my career.
- What if this wild story, the president's son-in-law thought talking directly to the Kremlin via Russian spy facilities was a good idea?
Examples
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That's a pretty wild story, Mr. Meiks.
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It's because it's a pretty wild story, but I love the details.
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l came looking for wild stories of the Wild West.
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I bet they got wild stories of the road.
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Everybody brings these wild stories to me.
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Well, you see, she was so pure... that nobody believed these wild stories that Tank had been telling about her.
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Boy, that is a wild story, isn't it?
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You know, in a couple days you'll go home back to your friends... and tell 'em all your wild stories.
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Little did he know that he had somehow traveled back in time to England in the year 528! This is where his wild story begins.
Academic text (2010) -
Several of Hamilton's wild stories have survived initial disbelief and dismissal to become foundation stones in the understanding of evolution.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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7.2
A long story that is probably not true
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4.0
A story that says things are bigger or more amazing than they really are to be funny
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4.3
A news article that shocks or excites people by making events seem bigger than they are
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7.3
A made-up tale that is hard to believe
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5.5
A made up story told to hide the truth
A made-up story told in a big, exciting way to amuse people
A silly story that is clearly false and hard to believe
Antonyms
How Unbelievable
- Literature
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4.0
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3.5
- Informal
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4.6
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7.2
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an exciting, exaggerated, or hard-to-believe account' is directly predictable from combining 'wild' (very vivid/extreme) with 'story' (a narrative). This straightforward adjective+noun composition is a common and regular pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will typically infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Wild story may come from the image of a wild animal and a story that runs free, changing and growing as people tell it. That's why it means an exciting, exaggerated tale that is 'hard to believe'.