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dreadfully

About 0.82 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb In a dreadful manner; terribly.
    You behaved dreadfully yesterday night
  2. adverb Exceptionally, eminently, very much.
    That restaurant seems dreadfully expensive.

Similar words

horribly awfully dismally terribly appallingly hideously horrendously woefully terrifyingly frightfully

Often followed by

afraid sorry frightened wrong in from ill tired dull

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