Crossword clues for terrific
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrific \Ter*rif"ic\, a. [L. terrificus; fr. terrere to frighten + facere to make. See Terror, and Fact.] Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "frightening," from Latin terrificus "causing terror or fear, frightful," from terrere "fill with fear" (see terrible) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Weakened sensed of "very great, severe" (as in terrific headache) appeared 1809; inverted colloquial sense of "excellent" began 1888. Related: Terrifically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context colloquial English) Frighteningly good. 2 (context colloquial English) astounding or awesome. 3 terrifying; causing terror. 4 frightful or very unpleasant. 5 (context colloquial English) extraordinarily great or intense.
WordNet
adj. very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"
extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrifying]
Wikipedia
Terrific was a weekly British comic published by Odhams Press under the Power Comics imprint. It ran for 43 issues from 15 April 1967 until 3 February 1968, when it was merged with its sister title Fantastic.
Terrific was very similar in format to Fantastic, which had started publication two months earlier. The two titles were quite unlike other British comics of the time, consisting mainly of material reprinted from American Marvel Comics. In this respect they can be considered a precursor of the Marvel UK weeklies, such as The Mighty World Of Marvel, that appeared during the 1970s.
The Marvel titles which were reprinted in Terrific included The Avengers, the Doctor Strange strips from Strange Tales, and the Sub-Mariner and Giant-Man strips from Tales to Astonish.
"Terrific", is a song by singer-songwriter Drake Bell, his first and only single from his extended play, A Reminder. It was the first song he had released since 2008, and the first not to be co-written with either Michael Corcoran or C.J. Abraham. Though the song did not chart in the U.S., it debuted at number 1 on Mexico's charts. A music video was released on YouTube.
Terrific may refer to:
- "Terrific" (song), by Drake Bell
- Terrific (comics), 1960s British comics
Usage examples of "terrific".
Soon there was a terrific explosion as the pent-up air of the planetoid broke through its weakening container, and the sluggish river of allotropic ion flowed in an ever larger stream, ever faster.
Lord Feltre oiled them, damned them, kindled them to a terrific expiatory blaze, and extinguishingly salved and wafted aloft the released essence of them.
From the dark interior a terrific bellowing erupted, followed by the form of a slight man dressed in ragged homespun who fairly flew through the air to land in a hump in the road.
The humpback seemed bothered not at all by the terrific uproar outside, and it would certainly be but a matter of minutes until the police broke in.
Two nights ago, he had fought a terrific battle and had won it, saving the lives of others through tactics that had outmastered the strategy of Shiwan Khan.
Their shielding fields blazed white, their refractories wavered in the high blue as the overdriven refrigerators strove mightily to cope with the terrific load.
He rose, covered with blood, so ghastly and terrific that Pico, thinking him wounded, ran to him.
Nothing but your earnest desire so repeatedly expressed, could have induced me to sit down to a task that has unstrung my nerves for months to come, and reinduced a shadow of the unspeakable horror which years after my deliverance continued to make my days and nights dreadful, and solitude insupportably terrific.
I was confident we could fill the Packer roster with wonderful players and we could have a terrific staff of assistant coaches.
Since the Saturnian atmosphere is very deep and made up of dense gases, its weight is terrific and everything on the surface of the planet is subjected to terrific pressure.
Oriental appearance, greeted him with a stagy overabundance of warmth and led them at once to what must have been a choice table, high up in the middle dome with a terrific view of the water.
By then the burn was suppurating freely through the Vaseline and the smell was terrific.
At moments the fighting fury of the fish would throw its body clear of the water in magnificent leaps, and I almost could feel the terrific shakes with which the tarpon sought to dislodge the hook.
Wolfstein--when turning round, and starting in agonized frenzy from his chair, Ginotti himself--Ginotti--from whose terrific gaze never had he turned unappalled, stood in cool and fearless contempt before him!
Even the dubbing is terrific, with a special nod to Susan Egan for making an unshowy supporting part so appealing.