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单词 terrifically
释义 teˈrrifically, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2: see -ically.]
In a terrific or terrifying manner; frightfully, dreadfully, shockingly.
1814C. Clairmont in Dowden Shelley (1887) I. 452 note, A most terrifically dirty inn.1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 79 The reports of the distant war sound terrifically in the ear.1846Mrs. Sherwood in P. Parley's Ann. VII. 228 Arches of rock, which hung terrifically over my head.1904R. Hichens Gard. Allah Prel. vi, Terrifically greater, more overpowering than man.
b. colloq. in intensive use: Alarmingly, excessively, extremely. (Cf. awfully, dreadfully.)
1859Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 160 My corrections are terrifically heavy.1883J. Parker Apost. Life II. 188 Always be terrifically hard upon yourself.1885G. Meredith Diana Crossways ii, Terrifically precocious, he thought her.
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