FRIGHTFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frightfully mean? 

• FRIGHTFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb FRIGHTFULLY has 1 sense:

1. used as intensifiers

  Familiarity information: FRIGHTFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIGHTFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used as intensifiers

Synonyms:

awful; awfully; frightfully; terribly

Context example:

I'm awful sorry

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

When the young wrens heard that, they were frightfully angry, and screamed: “No, that we are not! Our parents are honest people! Bear, you will have to pay for that!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Both Harkey and Dutchy were dead—frightfully dead, because of the close range of the shot-gun.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Besides, the water was frightfully cold, and his was anything but a rugged constitution.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The power of observation would be soon given—frightfully soon it appeared when her thoughts were in one course.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He raged through the camp, smelling and digging in every likely place, snarling so frightfully that Pike heard and shivered in his hiding-place.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In a short time she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tom-cat and screaming frightfully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)