Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In a terrible manner: terribly wounded.
- adv. Extremely; very I'm terribly sorry.
- adv. To a great extent; very much: Would you mind terribly if I opened the window?
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a terrible manner. In a manner to cause terror, dread, fright, or awe; dreadfully.
- Violently; exceedingly; greatly; very.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adv. used as intensifiers
- adv. in a terrible manner
Examples
“It was small-minded and petty and terribly, terribly wrong of me to misjudge you.”
“And yet the men are in terribly wretched condition.”
“But the system in terribly flawed and must be changed.”
“And of course the best way to know a genre, to see it done well and done terribly, is to read it.”
““I know what you mean,” Sisko said, assuming that she referred to the terribly misguided Winn Adami.”
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“Admittedly manga in general suffers terribly from a surfeit of age-appropriate protagonists.”
“Your way will inevitably produce some conscious minds in terribly blighted bodies.”
“This cat was not in terribly good shape; he was thin and half-bald from a bad flea problem that his neglectful owners never saw fit to address, but even so, he's one of the sweetest boys in the world.”
“I don't find the large number cooking terms in English terribly unusual.”
“True, it is 4 lane, but not in terribly good condition, and the traffic is horrendous.”
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