dreadfully

Domain: Universal Words

adverb (especially BrE) 1 extremely; very much: I'm dreadfully sorry. * I miss you dreadfully. 2 very badly: They suffered dreadfully during the war.

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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