Word Meanings - TERRIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TERRIFIC)
- Dreadful
- Fearful
- shocking
- monstrous
- dire
- terrible
- frightful
- terrific
- horrible
- alarming
- awful
- Timid
- hesitating
- apprehensive
- afraid
- dreadful
- Frightful
- Terrible
- ugly
- hideous
- direful
- horrid
- Horrible
- Abominable
- detestable
- fearful
- ghastly
- hateful
- Awful
- formidable
- tremendous
Related words: (words related to TERRIFIC)
- ABOMINABLENESS
The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. - APPREHENSIVENESS
The quality or state of being apprehensive. - ABOMINABLE
1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time , - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - GHASTLY
gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. - FEARFULNESS
The state of being fearful. - SHOCKDOG
See 1 - HORRIDLY
In a horrid manner. Shak. - HORRIDNESS
The quality of being horrid. - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - HATEFUL
1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn. - HESITATINGLY
With hesitation or doubt. - DREADFUL
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3. - SHOCK-HEADED
Having a thick and bushy head of hair. - MONSTROUS
1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural - ALARMABLE
Easily alarmed or disturbed. - TIMIDITY
The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness. - FRIGHTFULNESS
The quality of being frightful. - TIMID
Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly, - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. - AFFRIGHTFUL
Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. - INTIMIDATORY
Tending or serving to intimidate.