Terribly

Definition: Terribly

Terribly

Adverb

1. (informal) used as intensifiers, as in "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry".

2. In a terrible manner; "she sings terribly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "terribly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Terribly

Greatness

Painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.

Crosswords: Terribly

I'm terribly worried about him. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson)

We have fire axes -- nothing terribly formidable (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

I say, this is all terribly formal (The Avengers; writing credit: Don MacPherson. Based on the television series by Sydney Newman.)

But when you're an overweight child, in a society that demands perfection, your sense of right and wrong will always be terribly skewed (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Oh no. It's just they're terribly comfortable (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco"; performing artist: Tony Bennett)

Terribly pleased (references; author: unknown)

Terribly Stuck Up (1915)

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Books

• Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (reference)

• Terribly Wonderful (A Mr Poggle and Scamp Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Young Love Gone Terribly Wrong (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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You and your infernal stock market have hurt Italian progress terribly. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Most libraries would be terribly diminished in bulk

quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch

Master Scaufflaire regretted terribly that he had not said a thousand francs

But they were terribly long and pointed nails

They were terribly excited about the pregnancy

However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it were but of half an hour

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Business

Foreign companies must take into account that while local manufacturers are not terribly competitive, third country suppliers are. Sales terms are generally a 10 percent down payment and a five-year financing. (references)

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Ending with "terribly": all-too-terribly, mama-terribly.

Containing "terribly": not-terribly-poor.

Albanian

tmerrshëm (horribly, miserably). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بشق الأنفس (just, scarce, scarcely, very hard, with greatest difficulty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страшно (almighty, fearfully, infernally, miserably, roaring, terrifically), ужасно (almighty, awfully, cruelly, damn, damnably, damned, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, remarkably, roaring, shocking, terrifically, thundering, to death), крайно (extremely, highly, intolerable, miserably, passing, sopping, to death, ultra-, unco, unmercifully, unusually, utterly). (various references)

Chinese 

非常 (Abundantly, Badly, Dearly, Very, Very's, Vitally), 可怕 (awful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, hideous, horrible, terrible). (various references)

Finnish

kauhean. (various references)

French

terriblement, épouvantablement. (various references)

German

schrecklich (abominably, abysmal, appalling, awful, awfully, 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, terrificly, terrifying, tremendous, tremenduously). (various references)

Greek 

φοβερά (awfully, formidably, menace, redoubtably, terrifically, threat), απαίσια (horribly, ominously), τρομερώσ, τρομερά (confoundedly, damned, formidably, terrbly, terrifically, terrifyingly). (various references)

Hungarian

szörnyűen. (various references)

Indonesian

kebangetan (excessively, overly). (various references)

Italian

terribilmente (awfully, damned), spaventosamente (frighteningly, horribly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

いみ合う (awfully, dear me!, dear!, Good gracious, to be, to come, to go, to quarrel, to snarl, welcome). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いやに (awfully). (various references)

Korean 

참담하게. (various references)

Pig Latin

erriblytay.(various references)

Romanian

teribil (awful, awfully, damnably, direful, dreadful, exceedingly, excruciating, extraordinary, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, like old boot, terrible, terrific, tremendous), straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, 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, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, vile), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

veoma (badly, downright, greatly, highly, mighty, most, passing, plumb, real, right, vastly, very), užasno (appallingly, awfully, dreadfully, frightfully, horribly). (various references)

Spanish

terriblemente (awfully, beastly, calamitously, deadly, Deuce, frightfully, head over heels, hellish, horribly, jolly, painfully). (various references)

Swedish

rysligt (awfully), ruskigt (awfully). (various references)

Turkish

son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, 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, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Terribly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erribol, teribl, terribaly, terribley. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: liberty.

-2 letters: birler, briery, riblet, trebly, trilby.

-3 letters: berry, beryl, birle, biter, blite, brier, eyrir, liber, liter, litre, relit, retry, riley, terry, tiler, tribe, trier.

-4 letters: belt, bier, bile, birl, birr, bite, blet, brie, brit, byre, byrl, byte, lier, lire, lite, lyre, rely, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile, tire, tirl, trey, tyer, tyre, yeti.

+3 letters: irrefutably, subliterary.

+4 letters: interlibrary, irresistibly, presbyterial, thimbleberry.

+5 letters: deterrability, equilibratory, imperturbably, irretrievably, perdurability, preferability, presbyterials, rebarbatively, reformability, repairability, retributively, reversibility.