horribly

About 1.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb In a horrible way; very badly.

   The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.

2. adverb To an extreme degree or extent.

   Then everything went horribly wrong.

3. adverb With a very bad effect.

   Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.

Similar words

awfully dreadfully appallingly hideously horrendously horrifically terribly badly awful woefully

Often followed by

wrong mutilated in and afraid frightened disfigured mangled from

Word family

horrible horribleness horriblenesses horribles