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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used as intensifiers
Example:
I'm awful sorry
Synonyms:
awful; awfully; frightfully; terribly
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a terrible manner
Example:
she sings terribly
Synonyms:
abominably; abysmally; atrociously; awfully; rottenly; terribly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
terrible (exceptionally bad or displeasing)
Context examples:
"I am terribly afraid of falling, myself," said the Cowardly Lion, "but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it. So get on my back and we will make the attempt."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He, too, growled, savagely, terribly, voicing the fear that is to life germane and that lies twisted about life's deepest roots.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Yet he would be so anxious for her being perfectly warm, would be so interested about her father, and so delighted with Mrs. Weston; and at last would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover, and made it some effort with her to preserve her good manners.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The gossip among the servants is that their master is terribly afraid of something. ‘Sold his soul to the devil in exchange for money,’ says Warner, ‘and expects his creditor to come up and claim his own.’ Where they came from, or who they are, nobody has an idea.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This I concealed where no one has ever discovered it; but my fears would not allow me to go back for the other, as I might perhaps have done, had I foreseen how terribly its presence might tell against my master.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet, I think, none treated him better than a dog, unless it was Ben Gunn, who was still terribly afraid of his old quartermaster, or myself, who had really something to thank him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They were all terribly footsore.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
