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Terribleness

Terrible \Ter"ri*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten. See Terror.]

  1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.

    Prudent in peace, and terrible in war.
    --Prior.

    Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
    --Deut. vii. 21.

  2. Excessive; extreme; severe. [Colloq.]

    The terrible coldness of the season.
    --Clarendon.

    Syn: Terrific; fearful; frightful; formidable; dreadful; horrible; shocking; awful. [1913 Webster] -- Ter"ri*ble*ness, n. -- Ter"ri*bly, adv.

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terribleness

n. The characteristic of being terrible.

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terribleness

n. a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness]

Usage examples of "terribleness".

And it was all therethe strangeness, the terribleness, of this wilf ride of a man on the back of a blue-tinted beastlike being that hated himand knew about the ship.

One dares not speak of terribleness, or brutality here, for fear of injecting value judgments into the narrative.