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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree
Example:
the storyline is wildly unrealistic
Classified under:
Pertainym:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With violent and uncontrollable passion
Example:
attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over
Classified under:
Pertainym:
wild (in a state of extreme emotion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner
Example:
He gesticulated wildly
Classified under:
Adverbs
Pertainym:
wild (in a state of extreme emotion)
Context examples:
Neso, the farthest-flung of them, orbits in a wildly elliptical loop that carries it nearly 46 million miles (74 million kilometers) away from the planet and takes 27 years to complete.
(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)
You have not hosted Jupiter in the wildly compatible sign of Capricorn, your ninth house, in over a decade, so the experience will likely seem fresh and new.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, "I told you so! I told you so!"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Buck was wildly glad.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Some of them, upon hearing me talk so wildly, thought I was mad: others laughed; for indeed it never came into my head, that I was now got among people of my own stature and strength.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When in the sixth round the smith was peppered twice without getting in a counter, and had the worst of the fall as well, the fellow became inarticulate altogether, and could only huzza wildly in his delight.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was such a game as I had often played at home about the rocks of Black Hill Cove, but never before, you may be sure, with such a wildly beating heart as now.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
According to scientists who pieced together a detailed picture of the climate and ecology more than 200 million years ago at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, a site rich with fossil, the tropical climate swung wildly with extremes of drought and intense heat.
(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)
Our dinner was tête-à-tête, and though my host did his best to be entertaining, his thoughts seemed to continually wander, and he talked so vaguely and wildly that I could hardly understand him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
