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Word Meanings - TERRIFIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

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  • 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.

 

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