fearfully

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adv in fear

More words related to fearfully

desperately

adverb. frightfully

dreadfully

adverb. awfully

eerily

adverb. strangely

bizarrely
bloodcurdlingly
chillingly
creepily
fantastically
fearfully
forebodingly
formidably
grimly
hauntingly
monstrously
mysteriously
ominously
otherworldly
phantasmatically
preternaturally
sinisterly
spectrally
spookily
supernaturally
uncannily
unnervingly
unusually
weirdly

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "causing fear," from fear + -ful. Meaning "full of fear, timid" (now less common) also is from mid-14c. As a mere emphatic, from 1630s. Related: Fearfully; fearfulness.

Example Sentences for fearfully

"It's fearfully hard work, of course," he commented, when she had finished.

They were fearfully bad, and my face must have shown the impression they made.

All too fearfully I divined their preposterous significance.

Yea, he would curse them bitterly, and swore most fearfully what he would do to them when he found them.

Reluctantly, fearfully, distrustfully, Glory paid her guinea and left her address.

I was afraid of the storm, and yet I was fearfully, frightfully glad of it.

I called Father Dan's attention to this, and in a moment he was fearfully excited.

He glanced reproachfully at Grace, then fearfully at his sister.

"Tell me more precisely what you mean," I begged her, for her words had moved me fearfully.

She looked up at him fearfully, yet with flutterings of hope.

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dreadfully

eerily

terribly

Synonyms for fearfully

desperately