wildly

adverb

ˈwī(-ə)l(d)-lē How to pronounce wildly (audio)
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as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner upon being dismissed, the students dashed wildly off in all directions

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as in extremely
to a great degree trespassers make the recluse wildly angry

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Recent Examples of wildly This commitment to less information is wildly counterproductive. — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025 The essence of Mars is wildly passionate, but don’t let its lust for life fool you. — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025 That doesn’t mean Soderbergh’s exercise in technical restraints and goofy but wildly entertaining suspense is disposable, though, by any means. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 The firm’s stock price saw wildly volatile moves last week, up by as much as 77% on Tuesday and by another 120% on Wednesday. — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wildly
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  1. frantically
  2. extremely
  3. wild
  4. incredibly
  5. very
  6. terribly
  7. highly
  8. too
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  • Rally-goers were seen in footage on social media dispersing frantically during a 15-minute silence that was being observed during the protest.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Every year around this time, as college basketball casuals start frantically Googling for Cinderellas, bracket breakdown marathons blanket TV airwaves and CBS’ Seth Davis predicts his fourth double-digit seed to advance to the Sweet 16, an upset favorite begins to emerge.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of frantically
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  • There was a lot of extremely negative feedback and people would not hold back.
    — Angel Saunders, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • For people, most of the problems begin in what’s called the wildland-urban interface (WUI): A growing number of homeowners in the region live in extremely close proximity to forests and grasslands, where wildfires can easily encroach on property.
    — Kiley Price, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of extremely
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  • All of it wild-caught.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Our first stop is in a wild-looking stretch 200 yards south of the railroad tracks and State Street.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
Definition of wild
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  • In an incredibly clumsy move to penetrate the Chinese market, Facebook secretly released apps in the country through shell corporations without authorization, but supposedly with the tacit approval of China’s internet regulator.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Digital partners that enable end to end supplier integration can have an incredibly powerful impact on supply chain operations for all involved.
    — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of incredibly
Adverb
  • After narrowly surviving the very injured Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, 131-126, the Denver Nuggets are slated to square off against the lowly Washington Wizards on the second night of a back-to-back tilt.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • That should cover plenty of Soto at-bats, which are very entertaining.
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of very
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  • In the movie, Nicholson plays a bank robber whose heist goes terribly wrong, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind.
    — Gillian Telling, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • And, when Andreeva did just that and snagged the big title, no one who’s been following women’s tennis was terribly surprised.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of terribly
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  • Early research tried to pin the deaths on an unlikely culprit: the highly toxic cycad plant and its seeds, which locals ground into flour to make tortillas.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Each new Indigenous resident-physician comes from communities that are highly underrepresented in medicine and experience disproportionate health disparities.
    — Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of highly
Adverb
  • Experts can be too confident in their abilities, and followers may be too unsure to say something.
    — Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Real Madrid also considered bidding for Isak in the summer of 2022 but believed the price to be too steep.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
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