单词 | frightfully |
释义 | frightfullyadv. In a frightful manner; to a frightful degree. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [adverb] arghlyc1000 eislichec1175 faintly1297 fearedly1488 sheepishly1528 fearfully1548 timorously1548 tremblingly1552 sheepish1581 ghastly1589 frightfully1621 timidly1656 meticulouslya1682 fearingly1820 fearsomely1876 scarily1880 tremulously1886 mousily1910 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania ii. 237 She, as if her enemy had been at hand, amazedly and frightfully answered [etc.]. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) ii. xii. 82 To run away from a snail, and very ruefully and frightfully to look back. 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 55 [He] cryed out frightfully, Who art thou? 2. objectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adverb] > hideously ghastlya1616 hideously1634 frightfully1729 1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 2 Then to her Glass; and Betty, pray Don't I look Frightfully to day? 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋8 The Beauty remarks how frightfully she looks. b. To a frightful extent or degree. Often hyperbolically as a mere intensive with adjectives of unfavourable connotation. Now frequently without depreciatory reference, but merely = ‘awfully’, greatly, very (colloquial or slang). Cf. frightful adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited x. 350 Their reverses made one feel the place frightfully unsafe. 1828 Countess Granville Let. 22 Nov. (1894) II. 36 His thirst for knowledge is frightfully minute. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 252 His cheeks..grew frightfully livid. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 275 His features were frightfully harsh. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 9 You look frightfully ill. 1875 Punch 24 July 31/1 Everything is..‘How deliciously frightful!’ ‘How frightfully charming!’ 1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 65 We English are frightfully wanting in tact. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. v. 39 With more jaw, and deeper set eyes, but frightfully like Jon! 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song iii. vii. 308 I don't know that I approve of it frightfully. 1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest ii. 14 I say, you know, it's frightfully nice of you chaps to go on this show. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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