English adverb: awfully | |||
| 1. | awfully used as intensifiers | ||
| Samples | Terribly interesting. I'm awful sorry. | ||
| Synonyms | awful, frightfully, terribly | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| 2. | awfully of a dreadful kind | ||
| Samples | There was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning. | ||
| Synonyms | dreadfully, horribly | ||
| 3. | awfully in a terrible manner | ||
| Samples | She sings terribly. | ||
| Synonyms | abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly | ||