Awfully

[Aw·ful*ly]

Use the adverb awfully to emphasize something, or to mean "very." You might say that you'd love to live in New York City, but it's awfully expensive.

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In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

Adverb
used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I''m awful sorry"

Adverb
in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly"

Adverb
of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"


adv.
In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

adv.
Very; excessively.


Awfully

Aw"ful*ly, adv. 1. In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently. 2. Very; excessively. [Slang]

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

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Usage Examples

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

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Other Usage Examples

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

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