wildly
- adverb
- /ˈwaɪldli/
- That movie was wildly entertaining, keeping everyone on the edge of their seats.
- wildly popular
- vary wildly
- wildly inaccurate
Father Mike Schmitz is host of the wildly popular The Bible.
- Father Mike Schmitz is host of the wildly popular The Bible.
- I just think the registry is wildly over the top.
- The Greek mythology professor is like this wildly attractive American man.
- Beyond that, it is a wildly unpopular idea.
- And, you know, this would have seemed wildly presumptuous.
- Like very average people can be wildly successful at real estate.
- They found that misinformation was wildly more popular.
- And this idea was so wildly popular, even Amazon couldn't compete.
- What is the thing that makes people so wildly successful?
Examples
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The Space Habitation project had been wildly popular when the previous Congress funded it.
Fiction book (2001) -
For example, the most recent American films are wildly popular, and many students see them more than once.
Academic text (1996) -
And they still continue to be wildly popular after all these years?
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All right, what are the steps to becoming a wildly popular talk show host?
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For sure we know that each of these people was successful, wildly successful.
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It's easy, it's effective, and it's now wildly in demand.
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People tend to like it and it seems to be wildly popular.
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Father Mike Schmitz is host of the wildly popular The Bible.
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Now he has a cookbook which got reviews and was wildly successful.
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And this idea was so wildly popular, even Amazon couldn't compete.
Synonyms
To a very great degree
To a very great degree
To show strong feeling or degree
By a very large amount
In a way that is very noticeable or extreme
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
By a very large amount that makes it hard to refuse
To a much higher level than usual
To a very large degree
By a very large amount
To a very great degree
In a way that causes a very large and sudden change
To a much higher level than usual
In a way that is much too extreme or silly
To a very great degree
In a way that is very wrong or extreme
To a very great degree
To a great degree
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
In a way that does not make sense or is much too extreme
To a very great degree
To a very great degree
In a way that is very shocking, too much, or rude
In a very impressive and successful way
In a wild and foolish way
To a much greater degree than is normal
To a very surprising degree that is hard to believe
In a way that shocks people because it is too large or unfair
To a very large degree
To a very great degree
In a very large and impressive way
Much more expensive than it should be
To a very large degree
In a very excited and wild way
To a very great degree
Antonyms
How Extreme
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wildly comes from wild meaning 'not controlled' and the ending -ly that makes it an adverb. When something is 'wild' it goes past normal limits, so wildly can mean 'to an extreme degree' or 'very', as in 'wildly popular'.