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Definition of Terrible
Terrible

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

Excessive; extreme; severe.

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Terrible Quotations

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

Terrible Translations

terrible in Dutch is schrikaanjagend, ijselijk
terrible in German is schrecklich
terrible in Italian is tremendo, terribile
terrible in Latin is atrox
terrible in Spanish is formidable, terrible, horrible


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