English Dictionary

terrible

/ˈtɛɹəbəl/

形容詞

Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome / Formidable, powerful. / Intense; extreme in degree or extent. / Unpleasant; disagreeable. / Very bad; lousy.

The movie was terrible.

意味（1）

Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome

The witch laid a terrible curse on him.

意味（2）

Formidable, powerful.

[…]and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a true sea-dog, and real old salt, and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.

意味（3）

Intense; extreme in degree or extent.

‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

意味（4）

Unpleasant; disagreeable.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

意味（5）

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 voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.

関連語

terribler （ comparative ）

more terrible （ comparative ）

terriblest （ superlative ）

most terrible （ superlative ）