dreadfully Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb of a dreadful kind
    horribly; awfully.
    • there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning
  2. adverb in a dreadful manner
    dismally.
    • as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed

WordNet


Dread"ful*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.

Webster 1913