wild
adjective
living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated.
wildly
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a word derived from
wild.
Example Sentences
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The measure was wildly popular, with 75% of voters backing it in a Wall Street Journal survey.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Data centres vary wildly in size, ranging from ones that fit inside a garden shed to others covering vast expanses of land.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Doing so would weaken the usefulness of both the commentary and the guidelines, and ultimately lead to wildly different sentences for the same crimes all depending on the judge.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026
She tore through their apartment in a rage, pushing aside the salvaged set pieces they’d turned into furniture and pacing wildly, as though she was looking for something to tear apart.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
