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terribly

adverb

ˈter-ə-blē How to pronounce terribly (audio)
Definition of terriblynext
as in extremely
to a great degree I'm terribly sorry to bother you

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Recent Examples of terribly You’re born in a place where women are treated terribly, or journalists are imprisoned, and those people need some luck. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026 But things went terribly wrong while giving birth to her daughter. — Michael Collins, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026 Although none of these trails are terribly technical, there’s still an inherent risk that comes with hiking. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 Twenty‑three years after his death, Elliott still isn’t particularly well known, or well understood, but he is terribly loved. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for terribly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terribly
  1. extremely
  2. very
  3. incredibly
  4. too
  5. highly
  6. badly
  7. so
  8. damned
Adverb
  • The romance genre is extremely popular on the publishing side with massive engaged fan bases, and buyers on the film and TV side recognize the potential for that to translate to the screen.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Earthquakes and bradyseisms are very rare; the continents move extremely slowly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of extremely
Adverb
  • Those who arrived in the 1900s had very different cultural, political, and religious backgrounds from the older Texas Jews.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • These salts can withstand very high temperatures before boiling.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of very
Adverb
  • Moments after an incredibly warm greeting, Quinn shoveled coal into the flames and stuck an iron in the forge.
    — Sarah Wood González, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Teach them that an answer can sound incredibly confident and still be wrong.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of incredibly
Adverb
  • Other analyses suggest about 40 percent of amateur athletes playing contact sports show brain changes that are characteristic of CTE, too.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of calling for calm and letting the justice system work, too many political leaders on the left and progressive social influencers either fanned the flames of unrest or failed to act until enormous damage was done.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of too
Adverb
  • That’s not surprising, though, since the events are not only intended to rev enthusiasm for customized and highly tuned automobiles, but keep the philanthropic legacy of Paul Walker alive.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In January, the company announced a partnership with South Korean fashion platform Musinsa to deploy its Skypod system at a new logistics center designed to handle hundreds of thousands of SKUs and highly variable demand.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of highly
Adverb
  • The Commanders badly need good news on the Daniels front because panic is this close to setting in.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of badly
Adverb
  • Gen either forgets or ignores the request, so Kat has to do it herself.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • By then, however, the tortoise is ten yards farther along, so Achilles must close the new gap.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of so
Adverb
  • The Rolling Stones, down to two original members, have released their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, and most of it is pretty damned good.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026
  • But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of damned

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“Terribly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terribly. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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