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Definition of Dreadfully
1. Adverb. Of a dreadful kind. "There was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
2. Adverb. In a dreadful manner. "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"
Definition of Dreadfully
1. adv. In a dreadful manner; terribly.
Definition of Dreadfully
1. Adverb. In a dreadful manner. ¹
2. Adverb. Exceptionally, eminently, very much. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dreadfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreadfully
Literary usage of Dreadfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... and go on board ship—A storm arises, during which I am dreadfully frightened —Ship
founders—Myself and crew saved by a boat from another vessel, ..."
2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"As these notes will probably now be published, I ran say that in my opinion my
Lord has been dreadfully used up, and if you don't howl with delight when you ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1816)
"There were, indeed, appearances which a boding mind might regard as presaging an
interruption of the calm succeeding a tempest so dreadfully and widely ..."
4. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... solid merit is far above that of any half-dozen of these lilliputian upstarts.
And so, betwixt hope and fear, I remain, Your dreadfully agitated WATCH. ..."
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