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horribly

/ˈhɒɹɪbli//ˈhɔɹəbli/

horribly adverb: in a horrible way; very badly.

Adverb

horribly (comparative more horribly, superlative most horribly)

  1. In a horrible way; very badly.
    • The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
    • Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did...2020 January 2, David Brooks, “A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade”, in The New York Times
  2. (often, degree) To an extreme degree or extent.
    • Then everything went horribly wrong.
    • The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
  3. (evaluative) With a very bad effect.
    • Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.

horribly meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

horribly in Hindi

भयानक रूप से, भयावह रूप से

horribly in Urdu

ہیبت سے, ہولناکی سے

horribly in Malayalam

ഭയങ്കരമായി

horribly in Kannada

ಭೀಕರವಾಗಿ, ಭಯಾನಕವಾಗಿ

Examples of horribly in a sentence

  • His attempt to make money by importing luxury cars backfired horribly when fuel prices tripled.
  • And now it's the turn of the horribly painful sounding 'ab crack' which has got people talking.
  • The goats and giraffe sheep will end up horribly over fed.

All 34 example sentences with horribly

Synonyms of horribly

All synonyms of horribly

Forms of horribly

comparativemore horribly
superlativemost horribly

Origin of horribly

From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.

Words formed from horribly

Phrases with horribly

Questions about horribly

What does horribly mean?
Horribly means in a horrible way; very badly.
What is horribly in Hindi?
Horribly in Hindi is भयानक रूप से, भयावह रूप से. See Horribly meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is horribly?
Horribly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce horribly?
Horribly is pronounced /ˈhɒɹɪbli/ (UK).

Words near horribly in the dictionary

  1. horriblenesses
  2. horribler
  3. horribles
  4. horriblest
  5. horribley
  6. horribly
  7. horrid
  8. horrider
  9. horridest
  10. horridity
  11. horridly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: horribly (page history and authors); horribly (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); horribly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horribly (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); horribly (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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