wildly
adverb
wild·ly
ˈwī(-ə)l(d)-lē 
1
: in a wild manner
was talking wildly
2
: extremely sense 2
wildly popular
wildly enthusiastic
Examples of wildly in a Sentence
He was waving his arms wildly.
I'm not wildly enthusiastic about seeing them.
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Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
But that technical legal definition is unedifying and wildly insufficient.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
The challenge before the Blue Jackets on Tuesday, then, was Winnipeg, one of the NHL’s biggest, strongest and most physical teams, not to mention wildly talented.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
On an alien planet, history could be wildly different, the strands coming together in a different order to weave something very similar or very different from what humanity calls science.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildly. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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