Horribly
English
Adverb
Horribly (comparative more Horribly, superlative most Horribly)
- (manner) In a horrible way; very badly.
- The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
- (degree, often modifying a negative adverb or adjective) To an extreme degree or extent.
- Then everything went horribly wrong.
- The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
- (evaluative) With a very bad effect.
- Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
Notes
- Adjectives to which "horribly" is often applied: wrong, afraid, bad, pleased, expensive, painful, slow, sick, cold, sad, difficult, cruel, fond, long, ill, awry, funny, familiar, depressed, ashamed, dirty, true, hot, confused, hard, tired.
Synonyms
- (all senses): dreadfully, frightfully, horrifyingly, terribly, terrifyingly
- (very; to an extreme degree or extent): very, terribly, awfully
Thesaurus
abominably, agonizingly, alarmingly, appallingly, astoundingly, atrociously, awfully, baldly, balefully, banefully, basely, bestially, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, brutally, confoundedly, contemptibly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, despicably, detestably, deucedly, direly, disconcertingly, disgustingly, dismayingly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadful, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, fearfully, flagrantly, forbiddingly, foully, frightfully, fulsomely, ghastly, grievously, grimly, grossly, gruesomely, hellishly, hideously, horrendously, horridly, horrifically, horrifyingly, improperly, inexcusably, infamously, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, loathsomely, miserably, nakedly, nastily, nauseatingly, notoriously, obnoxiously, odiously, offensively, openly, outrageously, painfully, piteously, repugnantly, repulsively, revoltingly, sadly, savagely, scandalously, shabbily, shamefully, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sordidly, sorely, staggeringly, startlingly, terribly, terrifically, torturously, tragically, tremendously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, viciously, vilely, woefully, wretchedly
Etymology
horrible
