Terrible

Adjective

 * 1) Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
 * The witch gave him a terrible curse.
 * 1) Most formidable.
 * 2) * 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * ...and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
 * 1) Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
 * He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.
 * 1) Unpleasant; disagreeable.
 * The food was terrible, but it was free.
 * 1) Very bad; lousy.
 * Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:frightening

Related terms

 * terrific
 * terrify
 * terrifying
 * terror
 * terrorist
 * terrorize

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From <  terribilis: < terrere:. Compare terror, deter.

Translations

 * Arabic: (faẓīʻ)
 * Chinese: 可怕 (kěpà), 夠嗆, 够呛 (gòuqiàng)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese: 恐ろしい (おそろしい, osoroshii), 猛烈な (もうれつな, mōretsu-na), ひどい (hidoi)


 * Latvian: šausmīgs
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:, przerażający
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: (múrʻib)
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 厲害, 利害 / 厉害, 利害 (lìhai)
 * Finnish: ,


 * French:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Russian: грозный
 * Turkish: müthiş


 * Arabic: (múrʻib)
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Norwegian: ,


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:, fahiş


 * Arabic: (faẓīʻ)
 * Chinese: 惡心, 恶心 (ěxin)
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Norwegian: ubehagelig


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Turkish:, felaket


 * Arabic:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: rémes
 * Hungarian: rémes
 * Hungarian: rémes
 * Hungarian: rémes
 * Hungarian: rémes


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:, kiepski
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Thai: แย่, ไม่ดีเลย
 * Turkish:, berbat
 * Thai: แย่, ไม่ดีเลย
 * Turkish:, berbat
 * Turkish:, berbat


 * : भयानक (bhayaanak); डरावना (Daraavana) / डरावनी (Daraavani) / डरावने (Daraavane)
 * : 무시무시한 (musimusihan)
 * : भयानक (bhayaanak); डरावना (Daraavana) / डरावनी (Daraavani) / डरावने (Daraavane)
 * : 무시무시한 (musimusihan)
 * : भयानक (bhayaanak); डरावना (Daraavana) / डरावनी (Daraavani) / डरावने (Daraavane)
 * : 무시무시한 (musimusihan)
 * : 무시무시한 (musimusihan)


 * : (मराठी) भयानक (bhayaanak); भीतीदायक (bhitidaayak)
 * : oillteil, uabhasach, grod
 * : ужаснo, užasno
 * : (1-5), fruktansvärd (1-5), avskyvärd (4)
 * : ужаснo, užasno
 * : (1-5), fruktansvärd (1-5), avskyvärd (4)
 * : (1-5), fruktansvärd (1-5), avskyvärd (4)

Adjective

 * 1)  terrible
 * But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.
 * But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.

Related terms

 * terreur
 * terriblement
 * terrifier

Adjective

 * 1) terrible

Related terms

 * terriblemente
 * terribilísimo
 * terror