Usually means: Causing great fear or apprehension.
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  1. dreadfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. dreadfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dreadfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dreadfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dreadfully, dreadfully: Wordnik
  6. dreadfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dreadfully: Wiktionary
  8. dreadfully: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dreadfully: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dreadfully, dreadfully: Dictionary.com
  11. dreadfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Dreadfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dreadfully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. dreadfully: Rhymezone
  15. Dreadfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. dreadfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. dreadfully: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dreadfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dreadfully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. dreadfully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dreadfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a dreadful manner; terribly.
▸ adverb:  (dated) Exceptionally, eminently, very much.

Similar:
awfully, horribly, dismally, frightfully, horridly, direfully, horrendously, wretchedly, dolorously, deathfully, more...

Opposite:
great, wonderful, fantastic, amazing

Phrases:
dreadfully bleak, dreadfully boring and uneventful, when something is dreadfully impressive, more...

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    black,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     blood red,     ash gray, more...



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Similar:
awfully, horribly, dismally, frightfully, horridly, direfully, horrendously, wretchedly, dolorously, deathfully, more...

Opposite:
great, wonderful, fantastic, amazing

Phrases:
dreadfully bleak, dreadfully boring and uneventful, when something is dreadfully impressive, more...

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     blood red,     ash gray, more...



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