spread like wildfire
Definition
› If disease or news spreads like wildfire, it quickly affects or becomes known by more and more people: Once one child in the school has the infection, it spreads like wildfire.UncontrolledFast and rapidShort in time
(Definition of spread like wildfire from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Uncontrolled, but you might be interested in these topics from the Good and bad topic area:
- Bad and wrong behaviour
- Bad but attractive
- Behaving in a silly way
- Behaving well
- Dangerous and harmful
- Disobedient
- Extremely good
- Feeling morally superior
- Good and excellent things
- Good, better and best
- Informal words for bad
- Informal words for good
- Morality and rules of behaviour
- Morally wrong and evil
- Not good enough
- Not of good quality
- Obedient and compliant
- People having good qualities
- Quite good, or not very good
- Selfishness
- Serious and severe
- Serious and unpleasant
- Unpleasant men
- Unpleasant people in general
- Unpleasant women
- Violent or aggressive
- Virtue and moral good
- Worse and worst
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok adverb
- amuck adverb
- be like feeding time at the zoo idiom
- cut loose idiom
- extravagance noun
- extravagant adjective
- indiscipline noun
- intemperate adjective
- like mad idiom
- madly adverb (QUICKLY)
- maniacal adjective
- runaway adjective
- spin out of control idiom
- spiral noun
- sth gone mad idiom
- tearaway noun
- unbridled adjective
- unruly adjective
- wayward adjective
Topic:
Uncontrolled
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
