adverb
definition
In a fearful manner; characterized by fear.
example
I stepped fearfully into the pitch-dark cave.
definition
Very; very much.
example
He's a fearfully good striker.
Examples of fearfully in a Sentence
She gazed at him fearfully, terrified he was leaving her.
Jim hesitated, eyeing the beasts fearfully.
The decade of anarchy which followed 1641 stimulated this tendency fearfully.
We must have in us enough reverence for all things outside us to make us tread fearfully on the grass.
Carmen tried to stay optimistic, but a part of her mind lingered fearfully on the thought that he might remain in a coma the rest of his life.
When combined with the solidifying effect of a fixed energy, Scorpios translate their emotional energy into something fearfully deep.
His mind, excitable by nature, very imperfectly disciplined by education, and exposed to the enthusiasm which was then epidemic in England, began to be fearfully disordered.
Bianca looked fearfully at the pregnant blonde, whose blood already soaked her clothing, then at the waiting devil beside her.
I wrote timidly, fearfully, but resolutely, urged on by my teacher, who knew that if I persevered, I should find my mental foothold again and get a grip on my faculties.
Burke, Wills and King, when they found themselves so fearfully left alone and unprovided in the wilderness, wandered about in that district till near the end of June.
It proceeded much more rapidly after the restraining influence of the missions was removed, leaving them free to revert to savagery; and the downward progress of the race was fearfully accelerated during the mining period, when they were abused, depraved, and in large numbers killed.
The pestilence was fearfully severe.