wildly

wild  (wld)

adj. wild·er, wild·est

1. Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants.

2. Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country.

3. Uncivilized or barbarous; savage.

4.

a. Lacking supervision or restraint: wild children living in the street.

b. Disorderly; unruly: a wild scene in the school cafeteria.

c. Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious: recalled his wild youth with remorse.

5. Lacking regular order or arrangment; disarranged: wild locks of long hair.

6. Full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion: wild with jealousy; a wild look in his eye; a wild rage.

7. Extravagant; fantastic: a wild idea.

8. Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy: wild weather.

9. Risky; imprudent: wild financial schemes.

10.

a. Impatiently eager: wild to get away for the weekend.

b. Informal Highly enthusiastic: just wild about the new music.

11. Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess.

12. Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic: a wild bullet.

13. Games Having an equivalence or value determined by the cardholder's choice: playing poker with deuces wild.

adv.

In a wild manner: growing wild; roaming wild.

n.

1. A natural or undomesticated state: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.

2. An uninhabited or uncultivated region. Often used in the plural: the wilds of the northern steppes.

intr.v. wild·ed, wild·ing, wilds Slang

To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others: "Police said that the youngsters ... were part of a larger group of teenagers who were 'wilding,'their slang for terrorizing and bullying" Maclean's.

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[Middle English wilde, from Old English.]

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wildly adv.

wildness n.

Thesaurus

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

Translations

wildly [ˈwaɪldlɪ] adv (= roughly) → violentamente (= foolishly); locamente (= rashly); descabelladamente

wildly [ˈwaɪldlɪ] wild adv [behave] → de manière déchaînée; [applaud] → frénétiquement; [hit, guess] → au hasard; [happy] → follement

wildly [ˈwaɪldlɪ] wild adv → wild (= very) [romantic] → wild- (= 000) [inefficient] → furchtbar

wildly [ˈwaɪldlɪ] adv [applaud] → freneticamente; [hit, guess] → a casaccio; [happy] → follemente