Usually means: Extremely, in a scary manner.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word frightfully:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. frightfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. frightfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frightfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frightfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Frightfully, frightfully: Wordnik
  6. frightfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. frightfully: Wiktionary
  8. Frightfully, frightfully: Dictionary.com
  9. frightfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Frightfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. frightfully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. frightfully: Rhymezone
  13. Frightfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. frightfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. frightfully: FreeDictionary.org
  16. frightfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. frightfully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. frightfully: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. frightfully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frightfully: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  In a frightful manner.
▸ adverb:  Very, extremely.

Similar:
awfully, terribly, frightsomely, frighteningly, dreadfully, frightenedly, horrifiedly, terrifyingly, scaringly, horrifyingly, more...

Opposite:
pleasantly, enjoyably, delightfully

Types:
terribly, awfully, dreadfully, horribly, more...

Phrases:
to speak frightfully, more...

Colors:
    blood red,     spectral silver, more...



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Similar:
awfully, terribly, frightsomely, frighteningly, dreadfully, frightenedly, horrifiedly, terrifyingly, scaringly, horrifyingly, more...

Opposite:
pleasantly, enjoyably, delightfully

Types:
terribly, awfully, dreadfully, horribly, more...

Phrases:
to speak frightfully, more...

Colors:
    blood red,     spectral silver, more...



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