单词 | dreadfully |
释义 | dreadfullyadv. In a dreadful manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > [adverb] dreadfully1303 dreadingly1589 dreadly1674 terrifiedly1842 the mind > emotion > fear > awe > [adverb] > with religious awe dreadfully1303 dreadly1847 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [adverb] > with reverent fear dreadfully1303 awfully1575 awesomely1818 dreadly1847 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11673 [The publican] seyde wyþ herte ful dredfully, ‘Lorde, þou haue on me mercy’. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypermnestra. 2680 Dredfully sche quakyth. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 77 Mekely and dredfully knowynge oure owne feblenesse. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. vi. sig. G.iij I will..so make as though I ranne away dreadfully. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 144 A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleepe. View more context for this quotation 2. So as to cause dread; terribly, fearfully, awfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adverb] dreadlyc1175 eislichec1175 grimlyc1175 ungainlya1200 awly?c1225 grurefulliche?c1225 fiendlyc1275 dreadfullya1400 felly?c1400 awfully1487 terrible1490 terriblya1500 fearingly1556 direly1610 dismally1653 dreadful1682 formidably1685 terrifyingly1767 direfully1775 terrifically1778 terrificly1791 appallingly1825 turble1893 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 21882 Oure soulis alle to make redy Aȝeyn his coome so dredefuly. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D3v They..tell her shee is dreadfullie beset. View more context for this quotation 1739 W. Broome Forty-third Chap. Ecclus. 61 in Poems Several Occasions 158 Red burning Bolts..Dreadfully bright o'er Seas and Earth they glare. 1802 B. Porteus Lect. Gospel St. Matt. II. xxii. 253 A most fatal imprecation, and most dreadfully fulfilled. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 224 Blazing martyr-piles, shining dreadfully through all after ages. 3. Colloquially used as a strong intensive = Exceedingly, ‘terribly’, ‘awfully’, ‘abominably’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > specifically of something bad sorea1300 grievously1340 terrible1490 beastly?1518 shrewdlyc1533 arrantly?1548 murrainly?1548 abominablea1550 pestilence1567 pestilently1567 cursedly1570 pestiferously1570 murrain1575 plaguey1584 plaguilya1586 grievous1598 scandalously1602 horridly1603 terribly1604 monstrously1611 hellish1614 dreadfullya1616 horrid1615 pestilenta1616 infernally1638 preposterously1661 woeful1684 confoundedly1694 confounded1709 glaringly1709 cursed1719 flagrantly1756 weary1790 disgustingly1804 filthy1827 blamed1833 peskily1833 pesky1833 blame1843 blasted1854 wickedly1858 blatantly1878 shamelessly1885 disgracefully1893 ruddy1913 bastarda1935 pissing1951 sodding1954 pissingly1971 a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 271 I am most dreadfully attended. 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 35 This is dreadfully Astonishing! 1796 Dk. Leeds Polit. Mem. (1884) 220 This dreadfully interesting conversation. 1824 S. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 42 Dreadfully afraid of America and everything American. 1881 M. L. Molesworth Adv. Herr Baby 138 He would have liked dreadfully to come home. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.1303 |
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