When to Use Dreadfully?

He was dreadfully seasick for five days. This is an awful thing to contemplate. I 'm dreadfully afraid of being tempted, at an unguarded moment, by the aunt. No progress had been made, the service was dreadfully costly in life, and it became intensely unpopular among the troops.

What does the word dreadfully means?

causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm. inspiring awe or reverence. extremely bad, unpleasant, or ugly: dreadful cooking; a dreadful hat.

What does dreadfully nervous mean?

Now comes the word—nervous—meaning of course overly sensitive, or jumpy, or pertaining to the nerves, that part of the body which is responsible for, as John Locke would have it, all we experience in this world, that word surrounded by dashes, and then not one but two “verys,” again introducing in effect, another ...