terribly
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1.4
- adverb
- /ˈtɛrəbli/
- His face was streaked with tears, and he looked terribly young and vulnerable.
- terribly important
- terribly wrong
- terribly surprising
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Watch on YouTubeAnd the two things get terribly confused and interwoven.
- And the two things get terribly confused and interwoven.
- And they always feel that life is terribly unfair to them.
- I was a terribly, terribly anxious young person.
- You see these beautiful photos of these terribly disturbed gaseous regions.
- I fall in love too terribly hard for love to ever last.
- I'm a bright guy who's terribly interested in what he does.
- I, I, I, isn't it sad that it's become terribly uncool?
- Starling is a successful business that I'm terribly proud of.
- So it it's terribly unjust what they're doing to Jordan.
- They're both terribly damaging, I think a growth mindset.
Examples
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Oh, but I am terribly angry.
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Your enemies must be terribly afraid of you.
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But you know, we're not terribly hard to please.
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Important fact, but not really terribly central right now.
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So not a terribly exciting, not a terribly big market.
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Thank you so terribly much.
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I told her that I loved her, which seemed terribly important at the time.
Fiction book (1990) -
And they always feel that life is terribly unfair to them.
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Suddenly, she missed Tristan terribly, and it was all she could do to hold back her tears.
Fiction book (1992) -
I am terribly sorry for any misunderstanding.
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
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2.3
To a very great degree
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1.3
Used before adjectives or adverbs informally to mean very
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1.4
To show strong feeling or degree
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1.0
By a very large amount
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3.6
Completely, to show that something is very strong or very great
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3.1
To a very large degree
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3.5
To a very large degree
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3.0
By a very large amount
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2.7
To a very great degree
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2.1
To a very great degree
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3.5
To a very large degree
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4.6
To a very great degree
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3.9
To a very great degree
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3.4
To a great degree
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4.5
To a very high degree
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3.5
To a very great degree
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5.2
To a very great degree
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7.4
To a very large degree
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4.3
In a very impressive and successful way
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3.6
To a very high degree
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6.0
To emphasize something, like saying very
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5.4
To make a describing word much stronger
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7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
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6.9
An informal way to mean very or extremely
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5.8
In a way that is very strong or extreme
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6.2
To a very great degree
Shows that a describing word is very strong
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Terribly comes from the same Latin root terrere 'to frighten' as terrible and terror, but over time people began to use it simply as a strong word like 'very'. That's why we can say someone is 'terribly' excited to mean they are 'very' excited.