terrible
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: severe, wicked |
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(satellite adjective) extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst" |
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Synonyms: fearful, frightful |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, unspeakable |
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(satellite 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" |
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Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific |
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