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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, great, nice, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | almighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe |
| Synonyms: | awful, desperate, enormous, excessive, extreme, great, intense, loud, terrible |
| Antonyms: | weak |
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astounding, awful, bad, daunting, dire, disheartening, dismaying, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, intimidating, mean, petrifying, scaring, shocking, terrible, terrifying, the end, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | comforting, encouraging, reassuring, satisfying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
| Synonyms: | appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, godawful, grody, gross*, horrible, horrid, horrifying, icky, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible |
| Antonyms: | inoffensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, real gone, shocking, something else, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | unamazing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe |
| Synonyms: | disastrous, distressing, grave, harsh, intense, painful, serious, terrible |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | offensive |
| Synonyms: | awful, disagreeable, disgusting, foul, gross, mean, nasty, revolting, rotten, terrible, unpleasant, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, inoffensive, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, low in quality |
| Synonyms: | bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
| Antonyms: | excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concentrated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense |
| Synonyms: | all-out, deep, desperate, exquisite, fierce, furious, hard, intensive, terrible, vehement, vicious |
| Antonyms: | diffuse, diluted, free, loose |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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