What is the meaning of awfully?

Used as intensifiers.
- usage: "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
- synonyms: terribly, awful, frightfully
Of a dreadful kind.
- usage: "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
- synonyms: dreadfully, horribly
In a terrible manner.
- usage: "she sings terribly"
- synonyms: terribly, atrociously, abominably, abysmally, rottenly

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