[syn: dismally, dreadfully]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dreadfully \Dread"ful*ly\, adv.
In a dreadful manner; terribly. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dreadfully
adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody
accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully,
awfully, horribly]
2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]