terrific

adjective

1 there was a terrific bang:

tremendous, huge, massive, gigantic, colossal, mighty, great, very great, very big, prodigious, formidable, sizeable, considerable;

intense, extreme, extraordinary, excessive, inordinate;

informal mega, whopping, whopping great, humongous;

British, informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous.

▷antonyms slight, imperceptible.

2 informal a terrific game of top-quality football | you look terrific!:

excellent, wonderful, marvellous, magnificent, superb, splendid, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate, outstanding;

consummate, perfect;

informal super, great, amazing, amazeballs, fantastic, tremendous, phenomenal, sensational, incredible, heavenly, divine, stellar, gorgeous, dreamy, grand, fabulous, fab, fabby, fantabulous, brill, awesome, magic, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, ace, crack, cool, mean, bad, wicked, mega, crucial, mind-blowing, far out, A1, sound, out of this world, marvy, spanking, dope, def, phat;

British, informal brilliant, brill, smashing, bosting;

North American, informal peachy, dandy, jim-dandy, neat, badass, boss, radical, rad, boffo, bully, bitching, bodacious, crackerjack;

US, informal on fleek;

Australian, New Zealand, informal beaut, bonzer;

South African, informal kif, lank;

informal , dated groovy;

British, informal , dated capital, champion, wizard, corking, cracking, ripping, spiffing, top-hole, topping, beezer;

North American, informal , dated swell, keen;

vulgar slang shit-hot;

archaic goodly.

▷antonyms dreadful, awful, horrible.

3 archaic terrific scenes of slaughter and destruction:

dreadful, terrible, appalling, awful, horrific, horrible, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, grim, ghastly, gruesome, frightful, fearful.

terrific Oxford Dictionary of English