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Definition: Horribly |
HorriblyAdverb1. Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "horribly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: HorriblySynonyms: awfully (adv), dreadfully (adv). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Symbolic Horribly Optimizing Assembly Program (computing). |
| 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. |
Ugliness | Verb: be ugly; Adjective: look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Horribly |
| Specialty definitions using "horribly": cough and die, crash and burn, crawling horror ♦ die horribly ♦ Turing tar-pit. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Cindy, we may be horribly mangled, but there'll be no sad faces on Christmas (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price) We found the body after a hailstorm, horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock at the foot of the tower, under a window which was, uh, how shall I say this, I trust (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach) She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) We die horribly and painfully, you go to Hell and I go to Heaven and spend eternity in the arms of Baby Jesus (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) I tried to help someone, and it backfired horribly. (The Rage: Carrie 2; writing credit: Rafael Moreu) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Smiling horribly all the time, and looking steadfastly at nothing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Phoetus" by Cerys Jones Commentary: "At some point I'm going to be animating this plasticine foetus, but I decided to capture it for posterity before things go horribly wrong." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Carolus Linnaeus | To live by medicine is to live horribly. |
Charles Darwin | What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! |
Oscar Wilde | They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the same time he was horribly disconcerted, because he had a little dust on his boots |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Bangladesh | Assailants throw acid in the faces of numerous women and a small but growing number of men, leaving victims horribly disfigured and often blind. (references) |
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| "Horribly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Horribly" is used about 348 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% | 348 | 15,329 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "horribly": die horribly ♦ grin horribly a ghastly smile. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "horribly": horribly-deformed. | |
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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 |
hilly horribly hundred | 7 |
horribly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "horribly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tmerrshëm (miserably, terribly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 可怕地 (Awfully, Direly, Fearfully, frightfully, gruesomely). (various references) | |
Czech | hroznì (abominably, abysmally, appallingly, awfully, deadly, frightfully, hellishly, hideously, painfully), strašnì (abominably, awfully, badly, fearfully, hellishly, infernally, mighty, with a vengeance). (various references) | |
German | entsetzlich (abysmal, abysmally, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, dire, dreadful, excruciating, frightful, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrendously, horrible, horrid, horridly, horrific, horrifying, outrageous, racking, shocking, shockingly, sickening, terrible, unspeakable), schreckliche (appallingly, dreadfully, frightfully, terribly, tremendousness). (various references) | |
Greek | απαίσια (ominously, terribly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rettenetesen (awful, awfully, bally, fiendishly, hideously), iszonyúan (desperate, desperately, horrendously). (various references) | |
Italian | spaventosamente (frighteningly, terribly). (various references) | |
Korean | 무섭게 (Direly, Fearfully, frightfully). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orriblyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | horrivelmente (shocking). (various references) | |
Romanian | sinistru (awful, awfully, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, horrible, lugubrious, lugubriously, luridly, sinister), oribil (abominable, detestable, gruesome, hideous, hideously, horrible, horrid, horrific, monstrous), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užasno (appallingly, awfully, dreadfully, frightfully, terribly). (various references) | |
Spanish | horriblemente (almighty, appalingly, appallingly, calamitously, frightful, nastily, vilely). (various references) | |
Swedish | förskräckligt (dreadfully, frightfully). (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างน่าเกลียดน่ากลัว (ghoulishly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страшно (frightfully, terrible), страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, awfully, bloody, deadly, devilish, disgustingly, fearfully, frightfully, precious, terrible), вкрай (amain, badly, dead, densely, enormously, in the extreme, real, really, sorely, thumping), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, beastly, bitter, devilish, dogged, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, lamentably, sadly, woefully). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 2, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exesth o ouranoV epi toutw kai efrixen epi pleion sfodra legei kurioV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Obstupescite caeli super hoc et portae eius desolamini vehementer dicit Dominus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Waxeth stoneyid, yee heuenus, vp on this, and, yee yatus of heuene, beth desolat hugeli, seith the Lord. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord. |
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| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 2, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Kahibulong kamo niini, Oh kalangitan, ug kalisang gayud, mag-musara kamo pag-ayo, nagaingon si Jehova. |
| Chinese | 諸 天 哪 、 要 因 此 驚 奇 、 極 其 恐 慌 、 甚 為 淒 涼 ． 這 是 耶 和 華 說 的 。 |
| Croatian | Zapanjite se nad tim, nebesa, zgranite se i zaprepastite," rijeè je Jahvina. |
| Danish | Gys derover, I Himle, Skræk og Rædsel gribe eder, lyder det fra HERREN; |
| Dutch | Ontzet u hierover, gij hemelen, en zijt verschrikt, wordt zeer woest, spreekt de HEERE. |
| Finnish | Hämmästykää tästä, te taivaat, kauhistukaa, peräti tyrmistykää, sanoo Herra. |
| French | Cieux, soyez étonnés de cela; Frémissez d`épouvante et d`horreur! dit l`Éternel. |
| German | Sollte sich doch der Himmel davor entsetzen, erschrecken und sehr erbeben, spricht der HERR. |
| Haitian Creole | Se pou syèl la pantan lè li tande sa! Se pou l' tranble. Se pou l' rete sezi! Se mwen menm Seyè a ki di sa. |
| Hungarian | Álmélkodjatok ezen, oh egek, és borzadjatok és rémüljetek meg igen! azt mondja az Úr. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Karena itu, hai langit, bergoncanglah! Tercengang dan gemetarlah! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah kamu tercengang-cengang, hai segala langit! gentarlah dan ngerilah akan perkara itu, demikianlah firman Tuhan. |
| Italian | Stupitene, o cieli; inorridite come non mai. Oracolo del Signore. |
| Korean | 너 하 늘 아 이 일 을 인 하 여 놀 랄 지 어 다 심 히 떨 지 어 다 두 려 워 할 지 어 다 여 호 와 의 말 이 니 라 |
| Maori | Miharo mai, e nga rangi, ki tenei, kia nui hoki te wehi, kia ngaro noa iho, e ai ta Ihowa. |
| Norwegian | Forskrekkes, I himler, over dette, og gys, bli storlig forferdet, sier Herren. |
| Rumanian | Mirayi-vq de awa ceva, ceruri, knfiorayi-vq de spaimq wi groazq, zice Domnul.` |
| Russian | рПДЙЧЙФЕУШ УЕНХ, ОЕВЕУБ, Й УПДТПЗОЙФЕУШ, Й ХЦБУОЙФЕУШ, ЗПЧПТЙФ зПУРПДШ. |
| Spanish | "¡Espantaos, oh cielos, y horrorizaos por esto! Temblad en gran manera, dice Jehovah. |
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Misspellings | |
"Horribly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Harraby, horriblis, horriby, phorbyl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "horribly" (pronounced hô"rublē) |
| 5 | -r u b l ē | demonstrably, terribly, unbearably. |
| 4 | -u b l ē | admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, audibly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, honorably, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, measurably, memorably, miserably, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, suitably, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unjustifiably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly. |
| 3 | -b l ē | ably, assembly, bubbly, doubly, feebly, glibly, humbly, immeasurably, nimbly, nobly, reassembly, subassembly, superbly, trembly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-i-l-o-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: broil, lorry, roily. | |
-4 letters: birl, birr, boil, brio, byrl, holy, lory, oily, orby, roil, yirr. | |
-5 letters: bio, boy, bro, brr, hob, hoy, lib, lob, obi, oil, orb, rho, rib, rob, yob. | |
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