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Definition: Awfully |
AwfullyAdverb1. (informal) used as intensifiers, as in "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry". 2. Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning". 3. In a terrible manner; "she sings terribly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Synonyms: AwfullySynonyms: abominably (adv), abysmally (adv), atrociously (adv), awful (adv), dreadfully (adv), frightfully (adv), horribly (adv), rottenly (adv), terribly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, gr/kat exochin/, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Awfully |
| Specialty definitions using "awfully": Adjective or Adverb, Awful ♦ SOCIETY SLANG. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.) Well you seem awfully sure, have you checked (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Do bundle up, it's awfully cold outside (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes) One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) Hmmm. Awfully quiet around here (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | The chances are your chances are awfully good ("Chances Are"; performing artist: Johnny Mathis) Well, chances are your chances are awfully good ("Chances Are"; performing artist: Johnny Mathis) And a little bit of something can look awfully good to you And you want to scream, but you gotta keep it all inside (Don't Mean Nothing; performing artist: Richard Marx) | |
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 | It's awfully decent of you to take it that way. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | But isn't that an awfully high price? : why are apples so expensive? : Well, ma'am ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir James M. Barrie | To die will be an awfully big adventure. |
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Economic History | Austria | Quality, service and price must come with it. Being American may get your foot in the door, but when it comes to laying out money, it is awfully easy for the Austrian to decide to go with the seller who is close and who speaks his language. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Julia Child | Well, it's awfully good. But I think the McDonald's could be very good, too, and so can Burger King. But the Burger King's French fries are very good, I think. |
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| "Awfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Awfully" is used about 403 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 403 | 13,916 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "awfully": awfully cold ♦ awfully good ♦ awfully nice ♦ be awfully sorry ♦ i am awfully sorry ♦ that's awfully good of you ♦ you are awfully nice!. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
awfully | 9 |
an awfully big adventure | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "awfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vreeslik, verskriklik. (various references) | |
Albanian | shumë (amount, awful, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), në mënyrë të frikshme (fearfully). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو مرعب, على نحو بغيض, إلى أبعد حد (badly, exceedingly, most). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страхотно (cruelly, frightfully), ужасно (almighty, cruelly, damn, damnably, damned, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, remarkably, roaring, shocking, terribly, terrifically, thundering, to death), много (almighty, amain, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不亦樂乎 (extremely), 可怕地 (Direly, Fearfully, frightfully, gruesomely, horribly). (various references) | |
Czech | strašnì (abominably, badly, fearfully, hellishly, horribly, infernally, mighty, with a vengeance), příšernì (frightfully), hroznì (abominably, abysmally, appallingly, deadly, frightfully, hellishly, hideously, horribly, painfully). (various references) | |
Dutch | verschrikkelýk (abysmal, dreadful, gruesome, horrible, terrible), bar (bar, barren, barrier, buffet, pub, severe, strict). (various references) | |
Esperanto | terure. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ræðuliga, øgiliga (extremely). (various references) | |
French | affreusement, vraiment, très atroce, terriblement. (various references) | |
German | schrecklich (abominably, abysmal, appalling, awful, dire, direly, dreadful, dreadfully, fearful, fearfully, formidable, frantic, frightful, frightfully, grim, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, indescribable, indescribably, lurid, luridly, monstrously, painfully, shockingly, terrible, terribly, terrificly, terrifying, tremendous, tremenduously), furchtbares, furchtbar (abysmal, awful, dreadful, fearful, fearfully, formidable, frightful, frightfully, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, parlous, redoubtable, shocking, shockingly, terrible, terribly, tremendous). (various references) | |
Greek | φοβερά (formidably, menace, redoubtably, terribly, terrifically, threat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | באפן ורא (fearfully). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szörnyen (atrociously, awful, dreadfully, fearfully, fiendishly, frightfully, hugely, in the extreme, something, terribly), tiszteletet keltően, rettenetesen (awful, bally, fiendishly, hideously, horribly), rémesen (awful), megilletődve, irtózatosan (awful, dreadfully, fiendishly, monstrously), félelmet keltően, félő tisztelettel, borzasztóan (dreadfully, horrendously, horribly, shocking, shockingly, terribly, terrifyingly, tremendously), áhítattal, áhítatot keltően. (various references) | |
Italian | tremendamente, terribilmente (damned, terribly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 迚も (exceedingly, very), いみ合う (dear me!, dear!, Good gracious, terribly, to be, to come, to go, to quarrel, to snarl, welcome), もし可能ならば (all the way, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, tardy, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いやに (terribly), やけ (desperately, frightfully, violently), とても (exceedingly, very). (various references) | |
Korean | 지독하게 (Appallingly). (various references) | |
Manx | Gow my leshtal! (Awfully sorry!). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awfullyay.(various references) | |
Polish | strasznie, okropnie. (various references) | |
Portuguese | terrivelmente (appallingly, ghastly, mortally, shocking), muito (a good deal, a great deal of, a lot, a lot of, deadly, exceedingly, greatly, highly, jolly, mighty, much, passing, plaguy, plenty, precious, quite, rare, ripping, sight, so, too, too much, very, very much), demasiado (exceeding, far, inordinate, over, racking, superfluous, supervacaneous, too). (various references) | |
Romanian | avan (awful, cruel, wicked), zdravãn (healthy, mighty, sane, sinewy, sound, soundly, sturdy, terrible, vigorous, whole), teribil (awful, damnably, direful, dreadful, exceedingly, excruciating, extraordinary, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, like old boot, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), solid (big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), sinistru (awful, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, horrible, horribly, lugubrious, lugubriously, luridly, sinister), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), groaznic (appalling, awful, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), foarte (ever so, exceedingly, greatly, highly, immortally, indeed, jolly, most, much, notably, plenty, quite, too, very, very much), extrem de (exceedingly, highly, indeed, inestimably, most, painfully, particularly, to a high degree, utterly), cumplit de, îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous), înfiorãtor (awful, creepy, dread, dreadful, dreadfully, foully, gruesome, terrible). (various references) | |
Russian | ужасно (atrociously, awesomely, bally, beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dooms, fearfully, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, terribly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užasno (appallingly, dreadfully, frightfully, horribly, terribly), strahovito, strašno (dreadfully). (various references) | |
Spanish | terriblemente (beastly, calamitously, deadly, Deuce, frightfully, head over heels, hellish, horribly, jolly, painfully, terribly), muy (all over, greatly, hellish, highly, jolly, mighty, nice, precious, proper, quite, rattling, sorely, too, very, very much), muchísimo (a great deal, heaps, heaps of, lot, oodles, very badly, very much, very much indeed). (various references) | |
Swedish | rysligt (terribly). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างเลวร้าย (nefariously). (various references) | |
Turkish | son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), müthiş bir şekilde, çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, bloody, deadly, devilish, disgustingly, fearfully, frightfully, horribly, precious, terrible), надзвичайно (almighty, amain, anxiously, as anything, deadly, densely, dreadfully, eminently, enormously, exceedingly, extremely, grossly, highly, hugely, in great measure, in the extreme, jolly, mighty, most, passing, regular, remarkably, ripping, sevenfold, severely, to the utmost, very much, woundily), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, beastly, bitter, devilish, dogged, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully), дуже (anxiously, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "awfully": lawfully, unlawfully. (additional references) | |
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"Awfully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awefully, awfule, awfull, awfuls. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "awfully" (pronounced Ä"flē or Ä"fulē) |
| 3 | -f l ē | beautifully, briefly, chiefly, colorfully, medfly, powerfully, roughly, safely, stiffly. |
| 4 | -f u l ē | anencephaly, artfully, blissfully, carefully, cheerfully, delightfully, joyfully, lawfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, fitfully, forcefully, frightfully, gainfully, gleefully, gracefully, gratefully, helpfully, hopefully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, peacefully, pitifully, playfully, purposefully, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ruefully, skillfully, successfully, tactfully, tastefully, tearfully, thankfully, thoughtfully, truthfully, unlawfully, unsuccessfully, usefully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abysmally, accidentally, abnormally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-u-w-y" | |
-1 letter: lawful. | |
-2 letters: awful, flawy, fully, wally. | |
-3 letters: ally, fall, flaw, flay, full, wall, waly, waul, yawl. | |
-4 letters: all, awl, fay, flu, fly, law, lay, way, yaw. | |
-5 letters: al, aw, ay, fa, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-u-w-y" | |
+1 letter: lawfully. | |
+2 letters: wailfully, wakefully. | |
+3 letters: unlawfully, wastefully, watchfully, wearifully, wrathfully. | |
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