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TERRIFICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does terrifically mean?
• TERRIFICALLY (adverb)
The adverb TERRIFICALLY has 1 sense:
1. (used as an intensifier) extremely well
Familiarity information: TERRIFICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used as an intensifier) extremely well
Synonyms:
marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrous; wondrously
Context example:
the colors changed wondrously slowly
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Pertainym:
terrific (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)
Context examples
It is a scene terrifically desolate.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Far down there in the orchestra circle was the one woman in all the world, so different, so terrifically different, from these two girls of his class, that he could feel for them only pity and sorrow.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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