Terrible is an English word with synonyms like dire or painful. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Terrible in a sentence
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Terrible meaning
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
Synonyms of Terrible
Using Terrible
- The main meaning on this page is: Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome | Formidable, powerful. | Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- Useful related words include: awful, dreadful, abominable, atrocious.
- In the example corpus, terrible often appears in combinations such as: is terrible, the terrible, terrible terrible.
Example sentences (20)
Basically, what you’re doing is, you’re falling into this slippery slope of conceding that abortion is actually a pretty terrible thing, but we need it in these super extreme cases, in order to avoid this much more terrible thing.
My suggestion might end up being a terrible idea, but it also might not be a terrible idea.
Sure, a lot of these films are truly terrible, but they're terrible in an interesting way.
There’s much more to come, including the appearance of a figure from Bella’s past who is a terrible person and meets a fate that perhaps not even a terrible person deserves.
If you can stomach it, it really is an excellent movie, with a timeless anti-fascist message that fully explores the true oppression that Italy faced during this terrible, terrible time.
I'm hurting because I hurt her, and I feel terrible about that right now -- terrible," Pascal explained in a confessional.
I’ve realized since Oct. 7, with the massacre in Israel and the terrible war raging in the Middle East, I’ve been living with terrible feelings of disbelief, anger, frustration, depression and angst.
Leicester City’s 1-0 defeat at Bristol City was a ‘terrible, terrible’ result according to Sky Sports pundit Jobi McAnuff.
Military conflict is terrible for humans, and, as an animal advocate, I believe it’s terrible for our fellow creatures.
The former president also said that Carroll “is not a believable person” and that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan — who oversaw the defamation trial and whom Trump called "a terrible person, a terrible judge" and “highly corrupt” — knows as much.
Frank Gallagher is a terrible person who inspires his family to do terrible things to him.
He is a terrible person who says terrible things.
It turns out that my dad is terrible and I’m terrible.
Here are some terrible people—Republican Representatives Devin Nunes on the right, with Republican House attorney Steve Castor in the middle—looking terrible.
Here we go into detail about the five times Robin was terrible to Ted (and the five times Ted was terrible to Robin).
It hit me, and now I know, now they realize what I’ve been telling them for the last few weeks, that the clock and the calendar are terrible masters: the clock and the calendar are terrible masters.
It is Netflix, after all, that has produced terrible Adam Sandler movie after terrible Adam Sandler movie really, really well with home viewers.
It's just terrible, terrible history.
She had terrible, terrible trauma and overcame a lot in her life, but she became very sad when her sister died, who was really her only family.
Every Trump administration personnel shake-up is a noir story of terrible, incompetent people squabbling with other terrible, incompetent people.
Common combinations with terrible
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is terrible 18×
- the terrible 17×
- terrible terrible 14×
- was terrible 12×
- terrible person 9×
- terrible thing 7×
- this terrible 7×
- terrible for 7×
- in terrible 7×
- feel terrible 6×