Antonyms for terrible

Antonyms for (adj) terrible

Main entry: abominable, atrocious, awful, unspeakable, painful, terrible, dreadful

Definition: exceptionally bad or displeasing

Usage: atrocious taste; abominable workmanship; an awful voice; dreadful manners; a painful performance; terrible handwriting; an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room

Antonyms: good, goodness

Definition: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful


Antonyms: good

Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified


Main entry: horrendous, horrific, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, frightening, fearful, fearsome, terrible

Definition: causing fear or dread or terror

Usage: 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 explosions shook the city; a terrible curse

Antonyms: unalarming

Definition: not alarming; assuaging alarm


Main entry: severe, terrible, wicked

Definition: intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

Usage: severe pain; a severe case of flu; a terrible cough; under wicked fire from the enemy's guns; a wicked cough

Antonyms: mild

Definition: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme


Main entry: awful, frightful, tremendous, terrible

Definition: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

Usage: in a frightful hurry; spent a frightful amount of money

Antonyms: ordinary

Definition: not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree


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