terribly

adverb

ter·ri·bly ˈter-ə-blē

ˈte-rə-

Synonyms of terribly next

: to an extreme degree : very : extremely

became terribly ill

had a terribly nice time

got terribly excited

I had tried a little radio before the war and hadn't been terribly impressed with it at the time.—

Walter Cronkite

He and Jimmy got into a quarrel about the girl's being fired, and it got terribly bitter.—

Virginia Foster Durr

: in a terrible way : very badly, poorly, or unpleasantly

behaving terribly

They were treated terribly.

This can be regarded as a somewhat progressive attitude because it is true that women were terribly abused in the Roman world.—

Norman F. Cantor

And then the next year I played terribly and finished close to last.—

Gene Littler

: very much

I miss you terribly.

Examples of terribly in a Sentence

I'm terribly sorry to bother you

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Cleaning one's own floors seems like a terribly 20th-century way to spend one's time, and the age of the robo-vac has well and truly dawned over the last few years, with nearly 30% of US homes either using or considering a robot vacuum back in 2022, according to Interpret. —

New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025 Allen gets another chance to finally get his team past Mahomes’ team, one that isn’t all that terribly far from having made it to seven Super Bowls in a row. —

Mike Lupica, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025 All of which is to say: Something is going terribly wrong in the United States. —

Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025 When expectations get terribly low in fear of an earnings miss and a downbeat view of the future, all that is needed is an inline result and some positive leading indicators about the future to get the stock to trade higher. —

Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for terribly