| 单词 | awfully |
| 释义 | awfully (once / 502 pages) 1adv 2adv Use the adverb awfully to emphasize something, or to mean "very." You might say that you'd love to live in New York City, but it's awfully expensive. The word awfully is most often used for emphasis, as a way to say "extremely," "immensely," or "highly." Your newborn nephew might be awfully cute, or your surprise birthday party might be awfully fun. You can also use the word to mean "dreadfully" or "terribly," as in "My team played just awfully, so I wasn't surprised when they lost the game." The original meaning was "inspiring awe" or "inspiring reverence." WORD FAMILYawfully: awfullys+/awful: awfuler, awfulest, awfully, awfulness, awfuls USAGE EXAMPLESBut the mall, with its awfully affordable S. Klein Department store, a two-screen movie theater and a pizza parlor, was a hit. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) “Some day, when I’m awfully low,” Sinatra crooned as “The Way You Look Tonight” began. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Something is awfully perverse with a system in which a candidate who loses the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes gets to become president. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1adv in a terrible manner Syn abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly 2adv of a dreadful kind 2Syn dreadfully, horribly adv used as intensifiers Syn awful, frightfully, terribly |
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