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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dreadfully
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
desperately/terribly/dreadfully unhappy
▪ It was the first time she had been away from home and she was desperately unhappy.
terribly/dreadfully/horribly wrong
▪ Harry felt sure that something was terribly wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dreadfully overcrowded trains and frequent cancellations made commuting an ordeal.
▪ I am dreadfully sorry for any damage I may have caused.
▪ You must be dreadfully disappointed!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anna's arm hurt dreadfully, worse than when she'd fallen off the top of the climbing frame at the nursery.
▪ His face was mine, but distorted dreadfully.
▪ I felt dreadfully inadequate in the face of this material.
▪ I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long.
▪ Precedent counts for much, especially in the dreadfully slow handling of individual cases.
▪ To observe that something precious has been lost, covered over, and denied is regarded as dreadfully unsophisticated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dreadfully

Dreadfully \Dread"ful*ly\, adv. In a dreadful manner; terribly.
--Dryden.

Wiktionary
dreadfully

adv. 1 In a dreadful manner. 2 exceptionally, eminently, very much.

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

  2. 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" [syn: dismally]

Usage examples of "dreadfully".

The head pushed forward, bringing into visibility thickly maned shoulders, forefeet with sharply split hooves as dreadfully bedabbled as the horns.

She presented me to her husband, who suffered dreadfully from gout, and could not stir from his arm-chair.

I took her to the play, but as she did not understand the language she got dreadfully tired, and asked me to take her home at the end of the first act, which I did very willingly.

Staggering about, and dreadfully straggly looking beasts they were, but they were getting better from diphtheria, these creatures whose untreated companions had died days before.

Privately he was dreadfully annoyed, for he had intended to take Grenouille on a tour through the whole kingdom, recruiting adherents to his fluidal theory.

You have become dreadfully famous, and if what you used to say some twenty years ago about success and celebrities was even halfway true, you must be quite gaga by now.

I shut it and sat down on the lowest step of the stair, and spent there five hours which would probably have not been unpleasant ones if I had not been dreadfully tormented by the rats running to and fro close to me.

The countess, of whom my fancy had made a perfect woman, disappointed me dreadfully.

The worthy marchioness was delighted to receive this order, and looked upon it as a good omen, for I had tired her dreadfully.

We were four in all, and my companions only spoke German and Polish, so that I had a dreadfully tedious journey.

Mrs Maulfrey came into the room Horatia was seated on a low stool by the sopha, propping her chin in her hands, and scowling dreadfully.

Lilli was young, so dreadfully young that she might well not realize just how dangerous her situation was, caught between two men like the hull of a boat twixt rocks.

Beneath that murky layer was the terrible longing for Aidan, and the unfaceable fear that something was dreadfully wrong.

The armorers worked in shifts through the day and night, repairing armor, sharpening swords, making the turnip-shaped arrowheads that screamed so dreadfully to affright an enemy.

The yellow-eyed antlered man rode laughing dreadfully, crying out the avaunt that rallies hounds on the full chase, and his brilliant, white-gold horse flung forward with mane and tail flying.