HORRIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horribly mean? 

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

1. of a dreadful kind

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORRIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a dreadful kind

Synonyms:

awfully; dreadfully; horribly

Context example:

there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning

Pertainym:

horrible (provoking horror)

 Context examples 

He was sitting up in bed, horribly agitated, for he had heard enough to convince him that something terrible had occurred.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With much labour we separated them and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was one sergeant that was horribly wounded and yet kept on swimming for a surprising time, until some one in mercy blew out his brains.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Scarecrow was thinking again, and his head bulged out so horribly that Dorothy feared it would burst.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A drunken man, snoring horribly in his breathing, was curled up in the passage, absolutely oblivious to the stream of people who flowed round and occasionally over him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is infallibly deadly, and it is horribly contagious.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began to be horribly frightened, but I kept my head, for all that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were the two on whom it would fall most horribly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, the swart half-breed standing over her and cursing horribly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)