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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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
So yeah, this is a wildly important game for a team that hasn’t played complementary ball all season.
—Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2025
But in the late 1800s, food companies began concocting products that were wildly different from anything people could make themselves.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
So yeah, this is a wildly important game for a team that hasn’t played complementary ball all season.
—Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2025
But in the late 1800s, food companies began concocting products that were wildly different from anything people could make themselves.
—Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
The bill’s effects are expected to vary wildly depending on how much housing development cities already have near their transit stops.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildly. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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