DAMNABLY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

damnably

adverb

as in awfully

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The company hopes to make diagnostic testing cheaper and more accessible — a mission that may sound awfully familiar to anyone who followed the rise and fall of Theranos.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
If anything, Trump’s escalating attempts to strong-arm people into a supposedly nicer term for AI makes him — and the industry itself — look awfully weak.

— Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of awfully

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Rooms in Blocks 8 and 9 are closest to reception, and the swimming pool, but no walk is dreadfully far (especially considering the interesting animals that meander the pathways).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Although Yamaha has been dreadfully slow about bringing its motorcycles to India, the R2 made its global debut there this week.

— Yamaha, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of dreadfully

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Markos takes revenge by slicing up Matt’s face with a switchblade, leaving him horribly disfigured and his acting career essentially over.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
Nature created measles, modern science found the vaccine to stop it cold and end it forever and now horribly, Bobby Kennedy has brought it roaring back.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of horribly

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From that point on, this martial arts video game adaptation becomes disastrously scattered, between setups and payoffs at complete odds, confounding ADR, and a total lack of any actual conclusion.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Audi, which disastrously reconfigured its entire model-naming strategy a while ago before changing it all back, must have missed that memo.

— Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of disastrously

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The less said about Bryan’s horrendously gauche fuchsia-and-gold dress with puffy armholes and halter neck the better.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026
Too little regulation could allow the unleashing of devilish AI that might wipe us out or at least be horrendously destructive.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of horrendously

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Trade talks between Washington and Ottawa ended abysmally in late August, spurring a new wave of tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of consumer goods.

— Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.

— Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026

Definition of abysmally

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