exceptionally bad or displeasing; " atrocious taste"; " abominable workmanship"; " an awful voice"; " dreadful manners"; " a painful performance"; " terrible handwriting"; " an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

causing fear or dread or terror; " the awful war"; " an awful risk"; " dire news"; " a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; " the dread presence of the headmaster"; " polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; " a dreadful storm"; " a fearful howling"; " horrendous explosions shook the city"; " a terrible curse"

extremely distressing; " fearful slum conditions"; " a frightful mistake"; " suffered terrible thirst"

intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; " severe pain"; " a severe case of flu"; " a terrible cough"; " under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; " a wicked cough"

Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

Excessive; extreme; severe.

Exciting or causing fear or awe; dreadful; appalling.

Terribly.

Terribleness.

Fitted to excite terror or awe: awful: dreadful.

Frightful; awful; dreadful.

Of a nature to excite terror; appalling.

Adapted to excite terror; dreadful; formidable; adapted to inspire awe.

Adapted to impress terror or dread; fearful; horrible; awful.

" But you do not know him," exclaimed Melissa, " and how terrible he can be! – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

There it is terrible – Somewhere in France by Richard Harding Davis

What a terrible girl. – Carnival by Compton Mackenzie

" It's a very terrible story," said the Squire again. – The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

You know how terrible they were. – The Return by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

You don't know how terrible it is. – Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by William Somerset Maugham

Terrible it had been! – The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

And now she thought that there was something more terrible in his look than there had been before. – Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

A terrible old Dog! – The Busie Body by Susanna Centlivre Commentator: Jess Byrd

You are in terrible danger. – Donal Grant by George MacDonald

How much does that terrible man know? – Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

There was a terrible silence in her heart. – Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith

If not, there lay before him a terrible duty. – The Nether World by George Gissing

It's been- so dark and terrible – The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. Dell

There was something terrible about it. – Charles Rex by Ethel M. Dell

How terrible dear duchesse. – Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

I don't like it, Basil; we have got a terrible affair on our hands. – An Open-Eyed Conspiracy--An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

He did not know if his master had heard of it, but a terrible thing had happened not three miles away from them. – Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain

He got in that terrible way again last night. – Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. Arthur

All at once a terrible thing happened ... – Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery