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# wildly

«wildly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a wild, uncontrolled way, with lots of excited or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (wildly, more wildly, most wildly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wildly means in a wild, uncontrolled way, with lots of excited or fierce movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#m1)

2) Wildly means very much or extremely: «wildly popular», «wildly wrong». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#m2)

3) A wildly growing plant grows freely, without anyone looking after it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows strong feeling or chaos: a crowd cheering wildly, a heart beating wildly, a dog barking wildly. In maths and science it describes a guess or number far from the truth: «a wildly wrong estimate», «temperatures changed wildly». Phrases: «cheer wildly», «wave wildly», «wildly different», «wildly popular».

### examples

- The crowd cheered wildly when we scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x1)
- My heart was beating wildly before the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x2)
- He waved his arms wildly to get our attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x3)
- The dog barked wildly at the postman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x4)
- Her guess of 5,000 was wildly wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x5)
- The weather changed wildly from sunny to stormy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x6)
- Flowers grew wildly along the old railway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x7)
- The new game is wildly popular at our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x8)
- And the horse galloped on more wildly than before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/#x9)

### note

An adverb from «wild». Trap: «wildly» before an adjective usually means «extremely», not «in a wild way»: «wildly expensive» = very expensive. In maths, a wildly wrong answer is a sign to check the estimate and the working.

### In the corpora

- [Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/15/)
- [Doubling grows wildly: fold paper and the layers go 2, 4, 8, 16...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wildly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wildly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.