terrifyingly
5
6.5
- adverb
- /ˈtɛrɪfaɪɪŋli/
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aterradoramente
- The horror movie was terrifyingly realistic, making everyone in the theater jump at every scare.
Those two things exist in this terrifyingly powerful feedback loop.
- Those two things exist in this terrifyingly powerful feedback loop.
- Second of all, this thing is terrifyingly fast, dude.
- From a military perspective, yeah, I've always had the sense they came terrifyingly close to winning.
- This guy right here is the keeper of the terrifyingly long list of things that need to be done today.
- Tuesday it was it was terrifyingly scary.
- And it's really a terrifyingly difficult process that Apple could go through a little bit because they could afford for that process to fail.
Examples
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Narrow eyes, terrifyingly red and bright, stared at her from grimy slits in a buckskin mask.
Fiction book (2000) -
Those two things exist in this terrifyingly powerful feedback loop.
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Second of all, this thing is terrifyingly fast, dude.
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It's another great book and a terrifyingly complicated operation.
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At such a close range, the sound was terrifyingly loud.
Fiction book (1990) -
Even though it was only a dream, I felt as if my struggle to reach dry land was terrifyingly real.
Fiction book (1992) -
She's still hearing her voice calling for her mother, a sound at once so utterly foreign and terrifyingly familiar.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's a shocking and terrifyingly beautiful chase sequence that looks playful on the surface.
Blog text (20) -
In the Moscow Metro, built deep to double as a bomb shelter, the escalators are terrifyingly steep and fast.
Fiction book (1997) -
You've met my terrifyingly efficient right-hand woman, Maureen Coate.
Synonyms
30
6.8
In a strange and frightening way
18
4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
14
5.4
In a way that makes people feel worried or afraid
12
5.7
In a way that makes you feel scared
12
6.0
To emphasize something, like saying very
6
6.3
In a way that seems likely to hurt or scare someone
5
6.8
In a very cruel and shocking way
4
4.9
In a way that makes you feel afraid or very worried
3
6.3
In a way that makes you feel afraid or very uncomfortable
3
6.7
In a way that makes people feel very afraid or shocked
2
3.9
To a very high degree
2
8.8
In a very intense and unpleasant way
1
7.0
In a very bad and unpleasant way
1
7.9
Very funny or easy to notice
1
7.5
In a way that makes people afraid
1
7.0
In a strange, frightening way that feels like a ghost
1
5.8
In a way that is very strong or extreme
1
7.5
It happens in a very unpleasant and frightening way
1
8.8
In a way that causes great fear or pain
1
7.4
In a very strong way that is hard to resist
In a way that shows great fear or warns of danger
To make a describing word much stronger
Antonyms
How Scary
Surface Forms
Morphology
terrifyingly = terrifying (transparent) = terrify + ing + ly
Forming an adverb from the adjective 'terrifying' with the productive suffix '-ly' yields a predictable meaning.
Etymology
Terrifyingly comes from terrify, which comes from the same root as terror, meaning 'great fear' or 'to frighten'. Adding -ly turns it into a word that shows how something happens: 'in a frightening way', and people often use it like 'very' to make a description stronger.