Definition of Fearfully

1. Adverb. In fear,. "She hurried down the stairs fearfully"

Partainyms: Fearful
Antonyms: Fearlessly

2. Adverb. In an alarming manner. "They were fearfully attacked"
Partainyms: Awful

Definition of Fearfully

1. adv. In a fearful manner.

Definition of Fearfully

1. Adverb. in a fearful manner; characterized by fear ¹

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Definition of Fearfully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fearfully

fear and loathing
fear monger
fear mongers
feard
feare
feared
fearer
fearers
feares
fearest
feareth
fearful
fearfull
fearfuller
fearfullest
fearfully
fearfulness
fearfulnesses
fearing
fearless
fearlessly
fearlessness
fearlessnesses
fearlike
fearmonger
fearmongered
fearmongering
fearmongers
fearnaught
fearnaughts

Literary usage of Fearfully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1878)
"Every step hurt fearfully. The Creek bed was full of roots and snags, and briers, and vines trailed across it. These caught and tore our bare feet and legs, ..."

2. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"least defective and unsafe, was yet in reality fearfully so. Some one of those minute timber-beetles which subsist upon the wood of dead trees had here had ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"... the thirst for gain and novelty, the spirit of ambition and adventure, are ever actively engaged, with often reckless and fearfully mistaken zeal, ..."

4. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1867)
"McCulloch and Mclntosh, both mortally wounded. Carr was so fearfully overmatched throughout the day that, though always presenting a bold front ..."

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