goshawfully
- adverb
- /ɡɑːˈʃɔːfəli/
- Archaic
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- It was goshawfully hot outside today.
Examples
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She felt goshawfully tired after the long meeting.
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He was goshawfully late to the party.
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He was goshawfully late to the party.
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It was goshawfully hot during our hike.
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I'm goshawfully tired after that long trip.
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It was goshawfully hot during our hike.
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I'm goshawfully tired after that long trip.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To a large degree
∞
1.0
Shows how strong something is, for example very cold
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
351
1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
230
1.4
To a very great degree, often before words like cold or sad
128
3.5
To a very large degree
84
2.1
To a very great degree
76
3.4
In a way that shows you are sure something is true
57
4.6
To a very great degree
26
4.5
To a very high degree
21
3.5
To a very great degree
12
3.6
To a very high degree
12
6.0
To emphasize something, like saying very
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
5
5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
5
6.9
An informal way to mean very or extremely
4
6.2
To a very great degree
1
9.9
Shows that something is very strong or intense
People use it informally to mean very before adjectives
To a very great degree
Adds strong feeling to a word, meaning very or extremely
In a very strong way, often in casual talk
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word goshawfully comes from joining gosh, a mild form of 'God', and awfully, which once meant 'full of wonder' and later came to mean 'very'. So goshawfully is a friendly, old-fashioned way to say 'extremely', which is why it makes words like 'hot' or 'tired' much stronger.