terribleness

  • 51dreaded — adjective 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 …

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  • 52frightening — I noun the act of inspiring with fear • Syn: ↑terrorization, ↑terrorisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑frighten, ↑terrorise (for: ↑terrorisation), ↑ …

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  • 53terrible — adj. 1 colloq. very great or bad (a terrible bore). 2 colloq. very incompetent (terrible at tennis). 3 causing terror; fit to cause terror; awful, dreadful, formidable. Derivatives: terribleness n. Etymology: ME f. F f. L terribilis f. terrere… …

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  • 54unpleasantness — noun 1. the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling • Ant: ↑pleasantness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unpleasant • Hypernyms: ↑pain, ↑painfulness 2. the quality of giving displeasur …

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  • 55terribilita — ˌterə|bēlə|tä noun ( s) Etymology: Italian terribilità, literally, terribleness, from Late Latin terribilitat , terribilitas, from Latin terribilis terrible + itat , itas ity : an effect or expression of powerful will and immense angry force (as… …

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