Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
The witch laid a terrible curse on him.
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.
Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.
In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.
‘Oh, terrible bad, sir, terrible deep the snow is,’ said the hedgehog.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Ital...
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