terrible

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terrible Definition

• (s) 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"; "
• (s) 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"
• (s) 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"
• (s) extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"

terrible Synonyms

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