Horribly

//ˈhɔɹəbli// adv

adv ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adverb

1
In a horrible way; very badly.
"The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces."
2
To an extreme degree or extent. often
"Then everything went horribly wrong."
3
With a very bad effect.
"Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened."

Adverb

1
of a dreadful kind wordnet

Synonyms

dreadfully terribly abominably agonizingly alarmingly appallingly

Example

"During his illness, he fell away horribly."

Etymology

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

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