Table of Contents WORDNET DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

RELATED WORDS : european wildcat wildcat strike wildcat well

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wildcat has 3 senses

• wildcat(n = noun.artifact) wildcat well - an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field; Array
is a kind of oil well, oiler
Derived form adjective wildcat₃

• wildcat(n = noun.person) beast, brute, savage, wolf - a cruelly rapacious person; Array
is a kind of aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker

• wildcat(n = noun.animal) Array - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild; Array
is a member of felis, genus felis
is a kind of cat, true cat
has particulars: sand cat, catamountain, european wildcat, felis silvestris, catamount, cougar, felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma, felis pardalis, ocelot, panther cat, eyra, felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat, caffer cat, felis ocreata, kaffir cat, felis chaus, jungle cat, felis serval, serval, felis bengalensis, leopard cat, felis tigrina, tiger cat, felis wiedi, margay, margay cat, felis manul, manul, pallas's cat, catamount, lynx

Adjective wildcat has 3 senses

• wildcat(s = adj.all) Array - outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
• wildcat(s = adj.all) unauthorised, unauthorized - without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"
• wildcat(s = adj.all) Array - (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive; "drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation"; "a wildcat mine"; "wildcat drilling"; "wildcat wells"
Derived form noun wildcat₁

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

wildcat

Jezebel, Leo, Siberian tiger, adventurous, aleatory, beldam, bitch-kitty, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chancy, cheetah, cougar, dicey, disobedient, full of risk, fury, grimalkin, hag, hazardous, headstrong, heady, hellcat, hellhag, insubordinate, irresponsible, jaguar, lawless, leopard, licentious, lion, lynx, mountain lion, mutinous, ocelot, painter, panther, puma, rampant, reinless, riskful, risky, self-willed, she-devil, she-wolf, simba, siren, speculative, termagant, tiger, tigress, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undisciplined, ungoverned, unreined, unrestrained, venturesome, venturous, virago, vixen, willful, witch

ROGET THESAURUS

wildcat

Danger

N danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness, instability, defenselessness, exposure, vulnerability, vulnerable point, heel of Achilles, forlorn hope, leap in the dark, road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape, cause for alarm, source of danger, rock ahead, breakers ahead, storm brewing, clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering, warning, alarm, apprehension, in danger, endangered, fraught with danger, dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous, unsafe, unprotected &c (safe, protect), insecure, untrustworthy, built upon, sand, on a sandy basis, wildcat, defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless, unshielded, vulnerable, expugnable, exposed, open to, aux abois, at bay, on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks, at stake, in question, precarious, critical, ticklish, slippery, slippy, hanging by a thread, with a halter round one's neck, between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires, on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano, in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire, not out of the wood, unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared, off one's guard, tottering, unstable, unsteady, shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged, helpless, guideless, in a bad way, reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity, trembling in the balance, nodding to its fall, threatening, ominous, illomened, alarming, explosive, adventurous, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet.

For further exploring for "wildcat" in Webster Dictionary Online