dreadfully

«dreadfully» in Mova's school dictionary: Very; extremely: «I'm dreadfully sorry.» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (dreadfully)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very; extremely: «I'm dreadfully sorry.» tree →

2) Very badly: «The team played dreadfully.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In old British books such as Alice in Wonderland, «dreadfully» is often used for «very»: Alice was «dreadfully puzzled» and «dreadfully frightened». It sounds polite and a little old-fashioned. In everyday talk «dreadfully» can also mean in a very bad way.

examples

• I'm dreadfully sorry about the window. tree →
• Alice was dreadfully puzzled by the Hatter's remark. tree →
• The play went dreadfully — everyone forgot their lines. tree →
• It was dreadfully cold in the castle. tree →
• She missed her family dreadfully. tree →
• Mole was dreadfully frightened in the Wild Wood. tree →
• It certainly was a dreadfully hard frost. tree →

note

Adverb of dreadful (very bad; terrible). Spelling: dreadful + ly — two l's. Similar: awfully, terribly, very.

In the corpora

• «There was a great deal more of the same sort, but too dreadfully conceited to be written down.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dreadfully» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.