what does terrible mean?
TERRIBLE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- causing fear or dread or terror
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- 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
Similar To
- Meaning
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
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- atrocious taste
- abominable workmanship
- an awful voice
- dreadful manners
- a painful performance
- terrible handwriting
- an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
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- fearful slum conditions
- a frightful mistake
- suffered terrible thirst
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- Meaning
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- severe pain
- a severe case of flu
- a terrible cough
- under wicked fire from the enemy’’s guns
- a wicked cough
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