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terrific adjective [ təˈrɪfɪk ]

• of great size, amount, or intensity.
• "there was a terrific bang"
Similar: tremendous, huge, massive, gigantic, colossal, mighty, great, very great, very big, prodigious, formidable, sizeable, considerable, intense, extreme, extraordinary, excessive, inordinate, mega, whopping, whopping great, humongous, whacking, whacking great, ginormous,
Opposite: slight, imperceptible,
• causing terror.
• "his body presented a terrific emblem of death"
Similar: dreadful, terrible, appalling, awful, horrific, horrible, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, grim, ghastly, gruesome, frightful, fearful,
Origin: mid 17th century (in terrific (sense 2)): from Latin terrificus, from terrere ‘frighten’.


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