Terrible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Terrible \Ter"ri*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to
     frighten. See {Terror}.]
     1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread;
        dreadful; formidable.
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              Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. --Prior.
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              Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord
              thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
                                                    --Deut. vii.
                                                    21.
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     2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.]
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              The terrible coldness of the season.  --Clarendon.
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     Syn: Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful;
          horrible; shocking; awful.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Ter"ri*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ter"ri*bly},
          adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  terrible
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded},
               {dreadful}, {fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous},
               {horrific}]
       2: 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" [syn: {atrocious},
           {abominable}, {awful}, {dreadful}, {painful}, {unspeakable}]
       3: 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" [syn: {severe}, {wicked}]
       4: extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a
          frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst" [syn: {fearful},
           {frightful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  188 Moby Thesaurus words for "terrible":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, acute, alarming, appalling,
     arduous, arrant, ashamed, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring,
     awesome, awful, bad, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt,
     blameworthy, brutal, concentrated, conscience-stricken,
     contemptible, contrite, criminal, deadly, delinquent, deplorable,
     desperate, despicable, detestable, deviant, difficult, dire,
     direful, disagreeable, disgraceful, disgusting, distressed,
     distressing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil,
     exquisite, fearful, fearsome, fell, fetid, fierce, filthy,
     flagrant, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening, frightful,
     fulsome, furious, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grave, grievous, grim,
     grisly, gross, grotesque, gruesome, guilty, hardly the thing,
     harrowing, hateful, heavy, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible,
     horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, ignominious, illegal,
     improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous,
     intolerable, joyless, laborious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy,
     macabre, mephitic, miserable, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating,
     nauseous, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious,
     noxious, obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive,
     out-of-line, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, redoubtable,
     regretful, regrettable, remorseful, repelling, reprehensible,
     repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rousing, rueful,
     sacrilegious, sad, savage, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich,
     scurvy, serious, severe, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking,
     shoddy, sinful, sordid, sorry, squalid, strenuous, terrible,
     terrific, terrifying, thumping, toilsome, too bad, tough, tragic,
     tremendous, unbearable, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting,
     unfortunate, unhappy, unlawful, unpleasant, unrighteous, unseemly,
     unspeakable, unsuitable, vehement, vicious, vile, villainous,
     violent, whacking, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched,
     wrong, wrongful