dreadfully
About 0.82 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In a dreadful manner; terribly.
You behaved dreadfully yesterday night
- 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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