Definition of 'terrible'
Adjective
- 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"
Synonyms: awful dire direful dread dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific - 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"
Synonyms: atrocious abominable awful dreadful painful unspeakable - 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"
Synonyms: severe wicked - extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
Synonyms: frightful awful tremendous
