Meanings (ES + gloss)
terrible
Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For wh…
The witch laid a terrible curse on him.
horrible
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
The food was terrible, but it was free.
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
horrible • infumable
Very bad; lousy.
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voic…
Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver.
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