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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 more "terrible" the joke, he says the better.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

The joke is not so much that Jay is, according to Bran, “a supremely untalented dancer,” but that mainstream artists are inherently more terrible.

From Washington Post • May 27, 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

Wealhtheow's last words had been: "Take care. She was the wife of Cain. She is ten times more terrible than Her son."

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye