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wildly

  • adverb
  • wild·ly
  • wīldʹlē

In a wild, uncontrolled manner.

Example

“He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor.”

Other meanings

  1. To a ridiculous or extreme degree; extremely.

    “wildly exagerrated”

Word history

From Middle English "wildely".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “wildly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.