Usually means: Extremely bad, distressing, or unpleasant.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word terrible:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. terrible: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. terrible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. terrible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. terrible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. terrible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Terrible, terrible: Wordnik
  7. terrible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. terrible: Wiktionary
  9. terrible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. terrible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. terrible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. terrible: Dictionary.com
  13. terrible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. terrible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Terrible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Terrible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. terrible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. terrible: Rhymezone
  19. terrible, terrible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. terrible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Terrible: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. terrible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. terrible: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. terrible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. terrible: Free Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. terrible: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. terrible: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
▸ adjective:  Formidable, powerful.
▸ adjective:  Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
▸ adjective:  Unpleasant; disagreeable.
▸ adjective:  Very bad; lousy.
▸ adverb:  (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.

Similar:
horrific, dreaded, frightening, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, alarming, atrocious, frightful, horrendous, more...

Opposite:
wonderful, excellent, fantastic, superb, delightful

Types:
bad, worse, worst, more...

Phrases:
enfant terrible, terrible twos, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Terrible Herbst, more...

Adjectives:
old, darkness, average, delighted, butterfly, enchanted, mont, wisest, gun, new, the

Colors:
    dark gray,     blood red,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     vomit green, more...


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Similar:
horrific, dreaded, frightening, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, alarming, atrocious, frightful, horrendous, more...

Opposite:
wonderful, excellent, fantastic, superb, delightful

Types:
bad, worse, worst, more...

Phrases:
enfant terrible, terrible twos, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Terrible Herbst, The Terrible Dogfish, The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Terrible Towel, more...

Adjectives:
old, darkness, average, delighted, butterfly, enchanted, mont, wisest, gun, new, the

Colors:
    dark gray,     blood red,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     vomit green, more...



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