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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

“No more terrible disaster could befall your people,” a character warns, “than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Had it been a cold, windy night, had he been clever, had we been in a city, I might have woken to find him leaning over my bed, more terrible in moonlight than ever before.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk