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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
awfully
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ She's awfully good about popping in to see her.
▪ Though Dad is awfully good at growing green things, the Little Sprouts pine for something sweeter.
▪ But Cynthia and Basil are awfully good sorts.
▪ The old stare-down between them was over, but it had felt awfully good to Glover.
▪ It sounds awfully good for other reasons too.
▪ Whether they liked him or not, Johnson was an awfully good reflection on them.
hard
▪ It's awfully hard to get information about registered nursing homes.
▪ And yet when you are first starting out as an entrepreneur, a detour is awfully hard to resist.
▪ My heart did beat awfully hard.
▪ He had to push awfully hard to come back from his injuries, and that is just part of him now.
long
▪ She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time.
▪ What we do know is that geological time is awfully long.
▪ Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time.
▪ A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism.
nice
▪ She's the Vicar's wife, and awfully nice.
■ VERB
look
▪ You look awfully peaky and you've hardly eaten a thing.
▪ Even the most cursory glance showed me the crowd did look awfully grand.
▪ You look awfully - awfully - doesn't she, George?
▪ He just patted his pocket and grinned, looking awfully smug and pleased with himself.
▪ I thought you looked awfully young.
seem
▪ The once top-rated Cosby Show suddenly seemed awfully distant in time.
▪ For psychic sons of Gary Cooper, these dudes seem awfully affected.
▪ I pass by the house now and then but it doesn't seem awfully real to me yet.
▪ You seem awfully cheerful, Cyril.
sound
▪ That sounded awfully complex, and long.
▪ It sounds awfully good for other reasons too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's awfully noisy. Can we close the door?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had to push awfully hard to come back from his injuries, and that is just part of him now.
▪ Once I was outside, I suddenly felt awfully tired.
▪ She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time.
▪ She felt sick too, awfully, awfully sick.
▪ The once top-rated Cosby Show suddenly seemed awfully distant in time.
▪ The result is impressive but awfully stern and austere.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awfully

Awfully \Aw"ful*ly\, adv.

  1. In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

  2. Very; excessively. [Slang]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
awfully

c.1300, "so as to inspire reverence," from awful + -ly (2). Meaning "dreadfully, so as to strike one with awe" is recorded from late 14c. As a simple intensifier, "very, exceedingly," is attested from c.1830.

Wiktionary
awfully

adv. 1 In a manner inspiring awe. 2 reverently. 3 badly, terribly. 4 (context not comparable English) very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively. 5 (context obsolete English) fearfully.

WordNet
awfully
  1. adv. used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry" [syn: terribly, awful, frightfully]

  2. of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, horribly]

  3. in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: terribly, atrociously, abominably, abysmally, rottenly]

Usage examples of "awfully".

It would be awfully difficult for Gore to catch up to Bush before December 12unless a court disqualified enough Bush overseas absentee votes.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

The wind that had just screamed a thousand death-screams, was now awfully dumb, albeit Farina could feel it lifting hood and hair.

Last time I was there she used to let out six Egyptian jerboas in the drawing-room every evening after dinner, awfully jolly little beggars, like miniature kangaroos.

Fortunately your awfully well funded Mirabilis Agency came along and tempted me to talk a little.

Wracker sat on the edge of the desk and stared at the physicist for what seemed to Pissant to be an awfully long time.

As we drove out of the town the houses became fewer and the trees denser, with mosques here and there among them, and in a few minutes we were in the great dark forest of cocoa, betel, and sago palms, awfully solemn and oppressive in the hot stillness of the evening.

It looked awfully small, and Sora estimated that it was several kilometers away.

It did not matter to most Lyrians that his two ministers loathed each other, and that Bardel was just not awfully bright.

Confronted on the one hand with a number of persons bent on reporting the incident to the Deputy-Ranger, and on the other by a delinquent mongrel owned by a Young Person unattended by a footman, or a maid, they saw their duty clear before them: Lufra, the elder of the two awfully told Frederica, must be handed over to them, to be kept in custody until a magistrate should pronounce his fate.

And then, on top of all that, the men who pulled off this switcheroo would have had to be awfully damn sure than anyone and everyone involved in the conspiracy was completely reliable and that no one would spill.

Not awfully devout, but I do attend Congregationalist services most Sundays.

The Diamondbacks controlled a lot of votes, and you could find people who claimed that the disturbances had come at an awfully convenient time for the Gorton administration.

It frets me so awfully to see you lingering here when baby wants her comforts.

But how about the pucker along your spine, and the awfully foolish, grinny feeling around your cheek-bones?