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Frightfully vs Rightfully - What's the difference?

frightfully | rightfully |

As adverbs the difference between frightfully and rightfully

is that frightfully is in a frightful manner while rightfully is in accordance with what is right or just; fairly.

frightfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a frightful manner.
  • Very, extremely.
    • It all went frightfully quickly.

    rightfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In accordance with what is right or just; fairly.
  • * The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. -- John Stuart Mill
  • Rightly, correctly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Ne euer will it breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.