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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Meaning of "dreadfully" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DREADFULLY

dreadfully  [ˈdrɛdfʊlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREADFULLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dreadfully is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DREADFULLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dreadfully in the English dictionary

The definition of dreadfully in the dictionary is in a shocking, or disagreeable manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DREADFULLY


carefully
ˈkeəfʊlɪ
disregardfully
ˌdɪsrɪˈɡɑːdfʊlɪ
faithfully
ˈfeɪθfʊlɪ
fraudfully
ˈfrɔːdfʊlɪ
fully
ˈfʊlɪ
gratefully
ˈɡreɪtfʊlɪ
heedfully
ˈhiːdfʊlɪ
hopefully
ˈhəʊpfʊlɪ
mindfully
ˈmaɪndfʊlɪ
needfully
ˈniːdfʊlɪ
painfully
ˈpeɪnfʊlɪ
peacefully
ˈpiːsfʊlɪ
pridefully
ˈpraɪdfʊlɪ
regardfully
rɪˈɡɑːdfʊlɪ
speedfully
ˈspiːdfʊlɪ
successfully
səkˈsɛsfʊlɪ
thankfully
ˈθæŋkfʊlɪ
unheedfully
ʌnˈhiːdfʊlɪ
unmindfully
ʌnˈmaɪndfʊlɪ
wonderfully
ˈwʌndəfʊlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREADFULLY

dread
dreader
dreadful
dreadfulness
dreadless
dreadlessly
dreadlessness
dreadlocked
dreadlocks
dreadly
dreadnaught
dreadnought
dream
dream team
dream ticket
dream up
dream world
dreamboat
dreamer
dreamery

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREADFULLY

awfully
beautifully
blissfully
bully
cheerfully
delightfully
forcefully
gracefully
lawfully
playfully
powerfully
purposefully
respectfully
rightfully
skillfully
thoughtfully
truthfully
unlawfully
unmercifully
unsuccessfully
wrongfully

Synonyms and antonyms of dreadfully in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DREADFULLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dreadfully» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dreadfully

Translation of «dreadfully» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREADFULLY

Find out the translation of dreadfully to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dreadfully from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dreadfully» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

可怕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

terriblemente
570 millions of speakers

English

dreadfully
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dreadfully
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مخيفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ужасно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terrivelmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dreadfully
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

épouvantablement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sangat dahsyat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schrecklich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ものすごく
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우글 우글
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dreadfully
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khiếp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயமின்றி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Dreadfully
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

korkunç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terribilmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strasznie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жахливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îngrozitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φοβερά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vreeslik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fruktansvärt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fryktelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dreadfully

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREADFULLY»

The term «dreadfully» is regularly used and occupies the 87.019 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREADFULLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dreadfully

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10 QUOTES WITH «DREADFULLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dreadfully.
1
Louisa May Alcott
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
2
Lynda Barry
It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.
3
Paul Bettany
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
4
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
5
Jilly Cooper
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
6
Ronald Firbank
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
7
Ruth Gordon
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
8
Anna Held
No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
9
Brewster Kahle
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
10
Herman Melville
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREADFULLY»

Discover the use of dreadfully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dreadfully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Four years after Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy marry, Fitzwilliam is infected with a zombie bite, and Elizabeth must find a rumored antidote soon--or face beheading her beloved.
Steve Hockensmith, 2011
2
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating “unmentionables.” But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging ...
Steve Hockensmith, 2011
3
10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully ...
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Karl Shaw, 2011
4
The Butler Did It Every Chance He Got: A Dreadfully Funny ...
In 1906 two carriages arrive at Oddsen End, the estate of Lord and Lady Pilkington, each bearing an orphaned infant girl.
Helen Parramore, 2012
5
Miss Wondergem's Dreadfully Dreadful Pie
The McGrew children hate their mother's cooking and are delighted when they hear that a new bakery is opening up in town.
Valerie Sherrard, 2011
6
Dreadfully Deadly History
From the best ways to test a witch, to making a mummy in eight simple steps, and with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals and the plague, Dreadfully Deadly History looks at the most gruesome facts from the past.
Clive Gifford, 2012
7
Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness
CHAPTER. ONE. Dreadfully. Dirty . , . there was nutritiousness in the mud, and a man that drunk Mississippi water could grow corn in his stomach if he wanted to. — MARK TWAIN, 18831 John Wesley, Benjamin Franklin, and Reality In 1850, ...
Suellen Hoy, 1995
8
Trif and Trixy Trif and Trixy: A Story of a Dreadfully, ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
John Habberton, 2010
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Trif and Trixy. a Story of a Dreadfully Delightful Little ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
John Habberton, 2012
10
The Month, a view of passing subjects and manners, by A. ...
He bored me dreadfully at last. I work very hard, — oh, very hard indeed ; that is, in the season. My maid always sits up to make tea for me when I come home. Her hours are very regular considering. She goes to bed every morning about four ...
Albert Richard Smith, 1851

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREADFULLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dreadfully is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jilly Cooper's horror over mutilated dog dumped in Northern Ireland …
"It's the same for race horses, they are treated dreadfully once they stop being useful to their owners, it is appalling." English author Cooper ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Ottawa traffic updates for July 9, 2015
@cbcotttraffic. The 174 is dreadfully slow eastbound as a result... split to Montreal Rd. #Otttraffic (4:40) twitter.com/amkfoote/statu… Jul. 7, 2015. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
The Chronicle's search for the perfect gin and tonic recipe
... a dose of the anti-malarial compound quinine made what was, at that time, a dreadfully bitter drink a required practice for British colonialists. «San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
York citizens group readies campaign over toll plaza
Resident David Linney said any location north of mile 8.3 will have ledge, “and it's dreadfully expensive to blast through ledge.” Chases Pond ... «Seacoastonline.com, Jul 15»
5
Are beautiful women funny? Eisner's comments rekindle a tired …
And such entitlement is, by this point, dreadfully boring. “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like ... «Daily Herald, Jul 15»
6
'Dearly loved' baseball player dies after collapsing at match
We will miss him dreadfully. “Our thoughts are with Kal's family, including his brothers Aspi and Ilya who also have such a place at the heart of ... «Hemel Gazette, Jul 15»
7
Comedy's Sweet Weapon: The Cream Pie
“It is a dreadfully unfunny short,” Mr. Maltin said. “The mechanics of it are all wrong, as well as the comedic fundamentals.” Photo. Scenes from ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
Having a second look at Rachmaninoff's “First”
"So, it would muddle me dreadfully to have to learn a different one." On Friday, July 10 at the McIntyre Performing Arts Centre at Mohawk ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
9
Braes High post was 'more than a job'
I will miss the children and the incredible staff here dreadfully. It's been just phenomenal. I've enjoyed watching the changes and I can now say ... «Falkirk Herald, Jul 15»
10
5 controversial instances of plagiarism in music
Inspiration is dreadfully important for artists but there's always a fine line separating the act of being influenced and the simple act of copying. «Red Bull, Jul 15»

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