Horribly

/ˈhɔɹəbli/ adv

adv ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a horrible way; very badly.

    "The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces."

  2. 2
    To an extreme degree or extent. often

    "Then everything went horribly wrong."

  3. 3
    With a very bad effect.

    "Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened."

Adverb
  1. 1
    of a dreadful kind wordnet

Synonyms

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awfullyabominablyagonizinglyalarminglyappallinglyappallingly

Example

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"During his illness, he fell away horribly."

Etymology

From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.

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