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Defenition of the word terrible

    • Defenition of the word terrible

      • Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
      • Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality.
      • exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
      • causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
      • extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"
      • intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
      • causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "
      • intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy''s guns"; "a wicked cough"
      • causing fear or dread or terror
      • exceptionally bad or displeasing
      • intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
      • extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

    Synonyms for the word terrible

      • abominable
      • atrocious
      • awful
      • dire
      • direful
      • dread
      • dreaded
      • dreadful
      • fearful
      • fearsome
      • frightening
      • frightful
      • horrendous
      • horrific
      • painful
      • severe
      • unspeakable
      • wicked

    Similar words in the terrible

      • alarming
      • bad
      • intense

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