Awfully vs Fantastically - What's the difference?
awfully | fantastically |
In a manner inspiring awe.
Reverently.
Badly, terribly.
(not comparable) Very; exceedingly; extremely; excessively.
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(obsolete) Fearfully.
In a fantastic manner.
To an extent only in fantasy.
As adverbs the difference between awfully and fantastically
is that awfully is in a manner inspiring awe while fantastically is in a fantastic manner.awfully
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Adverb
(en adverb)- She led after the swiming and cycling, but ran awfully and came in fourth.
Project Gutenberg eText.
- It was wondrous. 'I'm awfully glad I came now,' his thought ran; 'I'm managing it rather well.'
Usage notes
* Adjectives to which "awfully" is often applied: good, hard, sad, nice, sorry, long, quiet, big, glad, familiar, well, difficult, tired, bad, hot, high, busy, pretty, small, cold, funny, expensive, fond, important, young, interesting, jolly, short, proud, clever, boring, strange, happy, lonely, stupid, strong, sick, pleased, old, hungry, afraid, silly.Synonyms
* (very) very, extremely, terriblyfantastically
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Alternative forms
* fantasticly (obsolete) * phantastically (dated)Adverb
(en adverb)- He painted fantastically with everything as if in a dream.
- He was fantastically wealthy.