TERRIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terribly mean? 

• TERRIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb TERRIBLY has 2 senses:

1. used as intensifiers

2. in a terrible manner

  Familiarity information: TERRIBLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRIBLY (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a terrible manner

Synonyms:

abominably; abysmally; atrociously; awfully; rottenly; terribly

Context example:

she sings terribly

Pertainym:

terrible (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

 Context examples 

And yet he must have known how terribly anxious I was.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But my knee was bothering me terribly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hansel and Gretel were so terribly frightened that they let fall what they had in their hands.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She had been terribly excited immediately after his disappearance.

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

The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated.

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

As for snarling he could snarl more terribly than any dog, young or old, in camp.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He loved her so much, so terribly, so hopelessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was never in my life so terribly frightened.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Terribly disappointed, you figure that’s that and close the door on that opportunity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)