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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
Alan Huffman

Meaning of "terrifyingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TERRIFYINGLY

terrifyingly  [ˈterɪfaɪɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TERRIFYINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Terrifyingly 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 TERRIFYINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of terrifyingly in the English dictionary

The definition of terrifyingly in the dictionary is in an extremely frightening manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TERRIFYINGLY


cryingly
ˈkraɪɪŋlɪ
denyingly
dɪˈnaɪɪŋlɪ
dyingly
ˈdaɪɪŋlɪ
edifyingly
ˈɛdɪfaɪɪŋlɪ
fortifyingly
ˈfɔːtɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
gratifyingly
ˈɡrætɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
horrifyingly
ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
lyingly
ˈlaɪɪŋlɪ
mortifyingly
ˈmɔːtɪfaɪɪŋlɪ
mystifyingly
ˈmɪstɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
plyingly
ˈplaɪɪŋlɪ
pryingly
ˈpraɪɪŋlɪ
satisfyingly
ˈsætɪsfaɪɪŋlɪ
scarifyingly
ˈskeərɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
sighingly
ˈsaɪɪŋlɪ
stupefyingly
ˈstjuːpɪˌfaɪɪŋlɪ
tryingly
ˈtraɪɪŋlɪ
underlyingly
ˌʌndəˈlaɪɪŋlɪ
undyingly
ʌnˈdaɪɪŋlɪ
vyingly
ˈvaɪɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TERRIFYINGLY

terricolous
terrier
terries
terrific
terrifically
terrified
terrifier
terrifies
terrify
terrifying
terrigenous
terrine
Territoire de Belfort
territorial
Territorial and Volunteer Reserve
Territorial Army
territorial waters
territorialisation
territorialise
territorialism

WORDS THAT END LIKE TERRIFYINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
shockingly
sickeningly
singly
strikingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of terrifyingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «terrifyingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TERRIFYINGLY

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

Translator English - Chinese

可怕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aterradoramente
570 millions of speakers

English

terrifyingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

terrifyingly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مخيف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ужасающе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terrifyingly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

terrifyingly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

terriblement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menakutkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erschreckend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

恐ろしいほど
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지극히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Terrifyingly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khủng khiếp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொடூரமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयानकपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

korkunç derecede
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spaventosamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przerażająco
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

страхітливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terifiant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρομακτικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verskriklik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

terrifyingly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

terrifyingly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of terrifyingly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TERRIFYINGLY»

The term «terrifyingly» is regularly used and occupies the 102.084 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TERRIFYINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «terrifyingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «terrifyingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «TERRIFYINGLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word terrifyingly.
1
Jennifer Ehle
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
2
Paul Giamatti
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
3
Alan Huffman
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
4
Harold Prince
It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TERRIFYINGLY»

Discover the use of terrifyingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to terrifyingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real ...
Discusses scientific experiments, emerging technologies, and natural disasters with apocalyptic risks, offering a wry assessment of threats ranging from autonomous security robots to nuclear tornadoes.
Robert Brockway, 2010
2
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Very Simple Introduction to the ...
You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else. In Learn Python the Hard Way, Third Edition, you'll learn Python by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them.
Zed Shaw, 2013
3
Petra Boase's Terrifyingly Terrific T-Shirts
A series of lively books, full of exciting and fun things to make and do. Aimed at 8-12 year olds, each book has 25 ideas for creative play, such as making chunky bracelets or designing t-shirts for sports fans.
Petra Boase, 2001
4
The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred
The expression “terrifyingly ancient” occurs there four times, twice in quo- tation marks. ... fall right away (nothing more rapid) through irrevocability, into “the terrifyingly ancient [l'ef- froyablement ancien],” there were nothing was ever present.
Kevin Hart, 2004
5
One Second After
One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
William R. Forstchen, 2011
6
Abomination
Michigan's rugged and beautiful Upper Peninsula is the setting for this absorbing tale of love and loss, beauty and terror, grievous sins and second chances. A deftly woven thriller from the popular author of the Rock Harbor novels.
Colleen Coble, 2008
7
Instead of Solitaire: 100 Poems in the Danger Zone
74. TERRIFYINGLY. SO. First we met him in the shade of the old HIV me an unbeliever him acolyte acolyte deep unswerving belief pills chemical nostrums applesauce well call him Attila serious bigguy shoulders like Mount Ararat/Mount  ...
Dennis Doph, 2003
8
Tears
This never-present past, which is always on the edge of the present as the never- present future, is the "terrifyingly ancient." The disastrous implications of this futur anterieur can be partially clarified by examining the relationship of Blanchot's ...
Mark C. Taylor, 1990
9
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral ...
Hannah Arendt, 1994
10
Altarity
... null, without limit, sordid absence, a suffocating condensation where being ceaselessly perpetuates itself as nothingness" (SL, 242-43; 255). The excessive debors, which the work of art neither reveals nor conceals, is the terrifyingly ancient.
Mark C. Taylor, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TERRIFYINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term terrifyingly is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Military Will Test a New Terrifyingly Loud Noise Gun
The Military Will Test a New Terrifyingly Loud Noise Gun. July 28, 2015 By Patrick Tucker. The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program is developing lasers that ... «Defense One, Jul 15»
2
Terrifyingly lifelike male sex dolls are now on the market - but surely …
Female sex dolls have been around for years, and they still have a reputation as slightly grubby, dead-eyed 'vessels'. You think of sex dolls, and the image of ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
3
Incredibly cool new Google Maps feature is also terrifyingly scary
Google Maps has a brand-new trick you should know about, but the feature is also terrifyingly scary, as it proves how much information big data companies can ... «BGR, Jul 15»
4
Terrifyingly Comprehensive Car Thieves Forge Docs, Then Take …
Ever since the Great Beetle Recovery, we've been getting requests to run stories to help find stolen cars, and we try to, as much as we can. But this one about a ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»
5
Riding shotgun with these pro rally car drivers was terrifyingly fun
Boston.com was among a small group of media outlets invited to the Team O'Neil Rally School in northern New Hampshire to get a preview of two cars making ... «Boston.com, Jul 15»
6
See-Through Pod Hotel Has A Terrifyingly Awesome View
True daredevils will jump at the chance to sleep in Skylodge, a trio of transparent capsules wedged high on a mountainside in the Peruvian Andes, not far from ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
The company building terrifyingly accurate smart rifles is nearly dead
Smart rifle company TrackingPoint, which made a huge media splash in recent years for producing weapons that could let amateurs shoot a target from extreme ... «The Verge, May 15»
8
'Bloodborne' Review: A Terrifyingly Brilliant Game
I'm not finished with the game yet, but the further into its terrifying depths I wander, the better the game gets. It's a stunning experience, lush with detail, variety, ... «Forbes, Mar 15»
9
Tatum: Joe is terrifyingly unreal when he dances
Channing Tatum has described Magic Mike XXL co-star Joe Manganiello's dance moves in the stripper flick “terrifyingly unreal”. «Belfast Telegraph, Mar 15»
10
8 of the Most Terrifyingly Tiny Rentals Available on Craigslist
Yesterday we brought you 13 of the tiniest homes for sale in New York City, but the truth is that the really frighteningly tiny (or just plain frightening places) aren't ... «Curbed NY, Feb 15»

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