Wildly

Name: American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 - Wildly
Author: Noah Webster

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.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Wildly," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VSPMDNFMAJEFHH.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Wildly." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 2 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VSPMDNFMAJEFHH.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Wildly' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 2 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VSPMDNFMAJEFHH.