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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
terrifically
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Living in New York can be terrifically expensive.
▪ The movie's main character, Ricky, is terrifically played by Mark Benton.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because the state tried to enforce a monopoly on ideas, intellectuals were both at great risk and terrifically influential.
▪ It was all terrifically exciting and when I got the parts I could hardly believe it.
▪ Nobody seemed to mind very much, all agreeing she works terrifically hard.
▪ One trains horrendously hard, one runs terrifically fast, one wins or loses.
▪ She's terrifically hot and she keeps crying.
▪ The plot is terrifically complicated, which is typical for the genre.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrifically

Terrifically \Ter*rif"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a terrific manner.

Wiktionary
terrifically

adv. In a terrific or extreme way.

WordNet
terrifically

adv. (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, marvelously]

Usage examples of "terrifically".

Everything on the menu, every appetizer, hot and cold, every salad, every fish and bird and piece of meat, was terrifically alluring, but none more than the others.

All seemed grimly appropriate, terrifically real--the darkness of the temple, the black shrouds of the devotees, the absence of any altar or propitiatory offering beneath the bare triangular symbol--for what offering short of life itself can be acceptable to the Lord of Death?

Everything tastes terrifically the samethe acrid tang of burning fat and blackened muscle fiber, the haunting scent of the gas station.

When I'm at home I'm not terrifically American, but over here I have to act a part, or disappear.

Rods, beams, planes, and stilettos of unbearable energy the doomed fleet launched, in addition to its terrifically destructive main beam: Roger hurled every material weapon at his command.

Out went their cosmic-energy blocking screens, out shot their tractor beams, and out from the refractory throats of their stupendous projectors raved the most terrifically destructive forces ever generated by mobile machinery.