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ADJECTIVE

bad, horrible

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abhorrent appalling atrocious awesome awful dangerous dire disastrous disturbing dreadful extreme frightful ghastly gruesome harrowing hideous horrendous horrid horrifying serious severe shocking unfortunate unpleasant

WEAK

awe-inspiring beastly desperate dread dreaded fearful hateful inconvenient loathsome monstrous obnoxious odious offensive petrifying poor repulsive revolting rotten unnerving unwelcome vile

Antonyms

STRONGEST

beautiful calming comforting delightful fortunate good happy inoffensive lucky mild nice pleasant pleasing trivial unimportant wonderful

WEAK

great

Example Sentences

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The following day brought even more terrible news - a nuclear power plant was in crisis.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it,” James Baldwin wrote.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Unfortunately, the answer to the mystery is far more terrible than "a lot of people have bad taste."

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022

What could be more terrible than to realize we’ve acclimated to the ideas the play introduced?

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

"And with regard to your brother, there are places darker and more terrible than Kurnugi. Those are the risks you'll be taking."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda