berserkly

adverb

as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner reports of a crazed man running berserkly through traffic at a major intersection

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  1. frantically
  2. wildly
  3. wild
  4. uncontrollably
Adverb
  • Cassity Garduque, 14, waved as her mom in her sailor uniform frantically waved back from the top deck.
    — Julie Watson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Companies went from using AI for the sake of using AI to frantically budgeting its use.
    — Konstantin Klyagin, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of frantically
Adverb
  • Officials have considered mass sterilization or hiring sharpshooters, but those options are wildly expensive.
    — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • But while many comedians go on to have wildly lucrative careers, that doesn’t seem to be Earthquake’s priority — making people laugh is.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of wildly
Adverb
  • Two more runs scored in the fourth inning when Ohtani, Pages and Freeman strung together three consecutive two-out singles and Keller wild-pitched a run home.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 12 June 2026
  • First, like cucumbers, squash is a wild-growing vegetable that competes for garden space, according to Dilmore.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 9 June 2026
Definition of wild
Adverb
  • Alpha 1, who’s most strict about the disease’s suppression, lashes out uncontrollably.
    — Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, wildfires have been blazing uncontrollably, most notably this week in the New Forest in southern England.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of uncontrollably
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“Berserkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/berserkly. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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