more terrible

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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It’s often when you don’t show all of that, what you imagine is much more terrible.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

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

“If we reopen everything despite the infection on the rise, we will suffer more terrible consequences,” said Benazir Ahmed, an epidemiologist and a member of the government’s advisory group on vaccines.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien