horribly en · ADV
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.
Meanings
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In a horrible way; very badly.
The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them.
2020 January 2, David Brooks, “A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade”, in The New York Times:
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(modifying a negative adverb or adjective, often, qualifier:degree) To an extreme degree or extent.
Then everything went horribly wrong.
The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
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(qualifier:evaluative) With a very bad effect.
Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more horribly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most horribly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
dreadfully (all senses) · terribly (very, to an extreme degree or extent) · frightfully (all senses) · horrendously (very, to an extreme degree or extent) · terrifyingly (all senses) · very (very, to an extreme degree or extent) · horrifyingly (all senses) · terribly (all senses) · grisly (all senses) · awfully (very, to an extreme degree or extent)
Translations (31)
ru ужа́сно (with a bad effect) · fi kammottavasti (in a horrible way) · eo terure (extremely) · pl strasznie (extremely) · ru стра́шно (extremely) · es horriblemente (in a horrible way) · wa teribmint (extremely) · pl okropnie (in a horrible way) · ca horriblement (in a horrible way) · eo horore (in a horrible way) · pl okropnie (extremely) · cs hrozně (extremely) · ru стра́шно (in a horrible way) · de fürchterlich (in a horrible way) · ru ужа́сно (extremely) · ru стра́шно (with a bad effect) · cs hrozně (in a horrible way) · gl horribelmente (in a horrible way) · fr horriblement (in a horrible way) · fi kauhean (extremely) · it orribilmente (in a horrible way) · fr horriblement (extremely) · fr horriblement (with a bad effect) · fi kammottavasti (with a bad effect) · fi kauheasti (extremely) · tr berbatça (in a horrible way) · ru ужа́сно (in a horrible way) · pl strasznie (in a horrible way) · wa carapmint (extremely) · pt horrivelmente (in a horrible way) · grc αἰνῶς (in a horrible way)