Fearfully

Definitions: Fearfully

Fearfully

Adverb

1. In fear, "she hurried down the stairs fearfully".

2. In an alarming manner; "they were fearfully attacked".

Date "fearfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Antonym: fearlessly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Greatness	Painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
Wonder	Adverb: wonderfully; Adjective: fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fearfully

English words defined with "fearfully": Quakingly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fearfully": Adjective or Adverb ♦ Judgment Day ♦ Morose. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Fearfully & Wonderfully Made - Chinese Edition (reference) Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (reference) Fearfully Made with His Image (reference) Millie-Christine : Fearfully And Wonderfully Made (reference) Wonderfully, Fearfully Made: Letters on Living With Hope, Teaching Understanding, and Ministering With Love, from a Gay Catholic Priest With AIDS (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Fearfully And Wonderfully Made (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Great branches drew themselves up fearfully.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fearfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Fearfully" is used about 138 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)	99.28%	137	27,138
Noun (proper)	0.72%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	138	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "fearfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		frikshëm (frightfully), në mënyrë të frikshme (awfully). (various references)

Arabic		‏على نحو مخيف (frightfully), ‏على نحو رهيب, ‏بخوف (timidly). (various references)

Bulgarian		страхливо (anxiously, gingerly), страшно (almighty, infernally, miserably, roaring, terribly, terrifically). (various references)

Chinese		可怕地 (Awfully, Direly, frightfully, gruesomely, horribly). (various references)

Czech		strašnì (abominably, awfully, badly, hellishly, horribly, infernally, mighty, with a vengeance). (various references)

French		terriblement, peureusement, craintivement. (various references)

German		furchtsame (timorously), furchtbar (abysmal, awful, awfully, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, parlous, redoubtable, shocking, shockingly, terrible, terribly, tremendous). (various references)

Hebrew		בחשש (anxiously, gingerly), באפן � ורא (awfully). (various references)

Hungarian		szörnyen (atrociously, awful, awfully, dreadfully, fiendishly, frightfully, hugely, in the extreme, something, terribly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		恐恐 (cautiously, respect, timidly), 恐々 (cautiously, respect, timidly), い�"石 (annoying, gingerly, hesitant, in swarms, irresolute, itching to do something, meteorite, sorely tempted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うぞうぞ (gingerly), �"わ�"わ (cautiously, nervously, timidly). (various references)

Korean		무섭게 (Direly, frightfully, horribly). (various references)

Pig Latin		earfullyfay

Portuguese		feio (frightful, haggle, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, shapeless, ugly, uncomely, unhandsome, unlovely, unseemly, unsightly). (various references)

Russian		страшно (confoundedly, frightfully, ghastly), ужасно (atrociously, awesomely, awfully, bally, beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dooms, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, terribly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plašljivo (chickenhearted). (various references)

Spanish		con miedo. (various references)

Turkish		tasayla, korku ile, hürmetle (respectfully). (various references)

Ukranian		страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, awfully, bloody, deadly, devilish, disgustingly, frightfully, horribly, precious, terrible), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, beastly, bitter, devilish, dogged, dreadfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Fearfully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feerfull, ferdfull. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fearfully" (pronounced 'Fear"ful*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-l-l-r-u-y"
	-2 letters: fearful, flyleaf, fullery.
	-3 letters: allure, earful, faller, farfel, ferula, flayer, fleury, fuller, laurel, raffle, rallye, really, refall, ruffle, ruffly.
	-4 letters: alley, early, faery, farle, fella, felly, feral, ferly, feuar, flare, flyer, fully, layer, leafy, leary, luffa, rally, refly, relay, ruffe, ureal.
	-5 letters: aery, alef, ally, aryl, earl, eyra, fall, fare, farl, feal, fear, fell.
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