terriblyadverb
uk/ˈter.ə.bli/us/ˈter.ə.bli/terribly adverb (VERY BADLY)
B2 very badly:
I slept terribly last night.
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- Tomato sauce stains terribly - it's really difficult to get it out of clothes.
- She'd suffered terribly over the years but it hadn't made her bitter.
- She suffers terribly in the winter when it's cold and her joints get stiff.
- They were terribly injured.
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- ghastly
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
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terribly adverb (VERY MUCH)
B1 mainly UK very:
I'm terribly pleased to hear that you've got a job.
I was terribly sorry to hear about the death of your mother.
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- She's terribly upset because her father passed away last week.
- He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
- I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to trip you up.
- The form was terribly complicated and I had a lot of trouble with it.
- I used to take plenty of exercise, but now I'm terribly unfit.
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- deadly
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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