Englishterrible
adjective
1 a terrible crime | he suffered terrible head injuries:
dreadful, awful, appalling, horrific, horrifying, horrible, horrendous, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, frightful, fearful, shocking, hideous, ghastly, grim, dire, hateful, unspeakable, gruesome, monstrous, sickening, heinous, vile;
serious, grave, acute, desperate, grievous, distressing, lamentable;
rare egregious.
▷antonyms minor, negligible, insignificant.
2 there was a terrible smell in the room:
nasty, disgusting, very unpleasant, awful, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, horrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious;
noxious, evil-smelling, foul-smelling, smelly, stinking, rank, rancid, fetid, malodorous, acrid;
informal gruesome, putrid, diabolical, yucky, sick-making, godawful, gross, from hell, icky, stinky;
British, informal beastly, grotty, whiffy, pongy, niffy;
Northern Irish, informal bogging;
North American, informal hellacious, lousy, skanky, funky;
Australian, informal on the nose;
literary noisome, mephitic;
archaic disgustful, loathly;
rare miasmal, olid.
▷antonyms nice, delightful, lovely, pleasant.
3 Blake was in terrible pain:
severe, extreme, intense, excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, insufferable.
▷antonyms slight.
4 that's a terrible thing to say about anyone:
unkind, nasty, unpleasant, foul, obnoxious, vile, contemptible, despicable, wretched, shabby;
spiteful, mean, malicious, poisonous, mean-spirited, cruel, hateful, hurtful;
unfair, uncharitable, uncalled for, below the belt, unacceptable, unwarranted;
informal dirty, filthy, dirty rotten, lowdown, beastly, off;
British, informal out of order;
vulgar slang shitty.
▷antonyms kind, nice.
5 I'm terrible at math | Tom was a terrible father:
very bad, dreadful, awful, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, laughable, substandard;
informal crummy, pathetic, pitiful, useless, lousy, appalling, abysmal, dire;
British, informal duff, chronic, poxy, rubbish, pants, a load of pants;
North American, vulgar slang chickenshit.
▷antonyms brilliant.
6 informal you're a terrible flirt | the place was in a terrible mess:
incorrigible, outrageous, great, extreme;
real, awful, dreadful, frightful, shocking;
informal impossible, fearful;
British, informal right, proper.
▷antonyms a bit of a.
7 I feel terrible—I've been in bed all day:
ill, unwell, poorly, bad, indisposed, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, out of sorts, green around the gills;
faint, dizzy, giddy, lightheaded;
British off, off colour;
informal under the weather, rough, lousy, awful, dreadful, crummy;
British, informal grotty, ropy;
Scottish, informal wabbit, peely-wally;
Australian, New Zealand, informal crook;
vulgar slang crappy;
dated queer, seedy;
rare peaked, peakish.
▷antonyms well.