horribly
Adverb
- In a dreadful, terrible, or shocking manner.
- of a dreadful kind
Adv
- In a horrible way; very badly.
- To an extreme degree or extent.
- With a very bad effect.
Examples
- He played HORRIBLY, making several errors that cost him the Scrabble game.
- Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
- The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
- The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
- Then everything went horribly wrong.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.
Synonyms
awfully, dreadfully, frightfully, grisly, horrendously, horrifyingly, terribly, terrifyingly, very
Scrabble Score: 16
horribly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhorribly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
horribly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
horribly: valid Words With Friends Word