Associations to the word «Dreadfully»

Wiktionary

DREADFULLY, adverb. In a dreadful manner.
DREADFULLY, adverb. Exceptionally, eminently, very much.

Dictionary definition

DREADFULLY, adverb. Of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning".
DREADFULLY, adverb. In a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats