horribly
In ghastly fashion
Horribly means in a horrible manner—causing horror, shock, or extreme distress: The experiment went horribly wrong.
More often it serves as an intensifier meaning extremely or terribly, usually with negative qualities: horribly expensive, horribly disfigured, I'm horribly sorry.
The word amplifies without necessarily invoking actual horror.
To extreme degree
- awfullyExtremely, often informally
- dreadfullyExtremely, unpleasantly so
- frightfullyExtremely, alarmingly so
- appallinglyIn shocking manner
shockingly · atrociously · abominably · ghastly · monstrously · hideously · egregiously · unspeakably
In terror-inducing manner
- terrifyinglyIn fear-inducing manner
- alarminglyIn a worrying manner
- chillinglyIn a frightening way
- hauntinglyIn a persistently unsettling way
menacingly · ominously · eerily · bloodcurdlingly · creepily · disturbingly · unnervingly · unsettlingly
In a distressing manner
- agonizinglyIn tormenting fashion
- torturouslyIn an agonizing manner
- miserablyIn wretched fashion
- wretchedlyIn abject misery
pitifully · cruelly · brutally · harshly · grievously · distressingly · unbearably · excruciatingly
In horrifying manner
- gorilyWith graphic violence
- macabrelyIn death-fixated manner
- ghoulishlyIn a death-obsessed way
- morbidlyWith unhealthy fixation
luridly · grimly · graphically · viscerally · shockingly · repugnantly · vilely · loathsomely
terribly
To extreme degree
- awfullyExtremely, often informally
- dreadfullyExtremely, unpleasantly so
- frightfullyExtremely, alarmingly so
appallingly · shockingly · atrociously · abominably · ghastly · monstrously · hideously · egregiously · unspeakably · excessively
frighteningly
In terror-inducing manner
- terrifyinglyIn fear-inducing manner
- alarminglyIn a worrying manner
- chillinglyIn a frightening way
hauntingly · menacingly · ominously · eerily · bloodcurdlingly · creepily · disturbingly · unnervingly · unsettlingly · nightmarishly
painfully
In a distressing manner
- agonizinglyIn tormenting fashion
- torturouslyIn an agonizing manner
- miserablyIn wretched fashion
wretchedly · pitifully · cruelly · brutally · harshly · grievously · distressingly · unbearably · excruciatingly · tormentingly
gruesomely
In horrifying manner
- gorilyWith graphic violence
- macabrelyIn death-fixated manner
- ghoulishlyIn a death-obsessed way
morbidly · luridly · grimly · graphically · viscerally · shockingly · repugnantly · vilely · loathsomely · nauseatingly
wrong
Contrary to fact
disastrously · catastrophically · botched · bungled · fumbled · flopped · misfired · backfired · crashed · tanked
- intensifiersvery, really, extremely, absolutely, incredibly
horriblywonderfully
In an excellent manner
beautifully · delightfully · pleasantly · enjoyably · magnificently
- too horrible to contemplate
- goes horribly rightUnintended success causes trouble
- Hagar the Horrible
- went horribly rightSuccess that caused problems