Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dreadfully"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dreadfully \Dread"ful*ly\, adv.
In a dreadful manner; terribly. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dreadfully
adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident
on the road this morning" [syn: {awfully}, {horribly}]
2: in a dreadful manner; "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" [syn: {dismally}]
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