DREADFULLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a dreadful kind

Example:

there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning

Synonyms:

awfully; dreadfully; horribly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dreadful (causing fear or dread or terror)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a dreadful manner

Example:

as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed

Synonyms:

dismally; dreadfully

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dreadful (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

Credits

Context examples:

He and Mrs. Weston were both dreadfully desponding.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I never have seen men more dreadfully affected than the pirates.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Your sister, he continued, has suffered dreadfully.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I was dreadfully afraid when I saw you that you had got the squire’s pig. If you have, and they catch you, it will be a bad job for you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He must have been dreadfully cruel to her!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At any other time this would have been felt dreadfully.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"And you are so dreadfully general that I fail to follow you. What I was speaking of was the qualification of editors—"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"I don't like your country, although it is so beautiful. And I am sure Aunt Em will be dreadfully worried over my being away so long."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were dreadfully convulsed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Didn't you feel dreadfully when the first cut came?" asked Meg, with a shiver.