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How to pronounce terrible in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific
Derivation terribleness


a terrible curse.
Type Words
Synonyms awful, frightful, tremendous
Derivation terribleness
Type Words
Synonyms severe, wicked
Derivation terribleness


a terrible cough.
Type Words
Synonyms abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, unspeakable
Derivation terribleness


terrible handwriting.

Examples of terrible

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Too bad that Natalie Walter, playing the Munich-born Heidi, has terrible German.
From the bloomberg.com
The NFC West is terrible this season, worse than any NFL division has ever been.
From the stltoday.com
If one of you thinks that's terrible, then that's who goes to the other's party.
From the freep.com
That's terrible, especially for a developing country that should be catching up.
From the businessweek.com
I was a terrible golfer, but I fell in love with the game and had tons of ideas.
From the businessweek.com
Thank goodness Italy provided a beautiful scenery because the plot was terrible.
From the latimes.com
Evidently, I got too close to the edge of the porch, leading to a terrible fall.
From the post-gazette.com
This was really disappointing for me but a terrible omen for Obama's reelection.
From the forbes.com
Today's Greece is still suffering from terrible decisions made during the 1980s.
From the infowars.com
More examples
  • Awful: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous ...
  • Atrocious: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
  • Severe: intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
  • Frightful: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
  • (terribleness) awfulness: a quality of extreme unpleasantness
  • (terribly) used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
  • Le Terrible is a Triomphant class strategic nuclear submarine of the French Navy. She was launched on 21 March 2008
  • Dreadful; causing alarm and fear; Most formidable; Unpleasant; disagreeable; Very bad; lousy
  • (terribly) Causing terror or awe; Very; extremely; Very badly