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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WILDLY, adv.
1. Without cultivation.
2. Without tameness.
3. With disorder; with perturbation or distraction; with a fierce or roving look; as, to start wildly from ones seat; to stare wildly.
4. Without attention; heedlessly.
5. Capriciously; irrationally; extravagantly.
Who is there so wildly skeptical as to question whether the sun will rise in the east?
6. Irregularly.
She, wildly wanton, wears by night away the sign of all our labors done by day.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree; "the storyline is wildly unrealistic"
2: in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly"
3: with violent and uncontrollable passion; "attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over"

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 14th century 1. in a wild manner <was talking wildly> 2. extremely 2 <wildly popular> <wildly enthusiastic>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wildly Wild"ly, adv. In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use wildly to emphasize the degree, amount, or intensity of something. Reports of his drinking have been wildly exaggerated... The island's hotels vary wildly. ADV: usu ADV adj, also ADV after v [emphasis] see also wild

Moby Thesaurus

a corps perdu, all to pieces, carelessly, deliriously, demonically, desperately, distractedly, fanatically, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like mad, like one possessed, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, rabidly, ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, stormily, turbulently, uncontrollably, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, with a vengeance