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| Main Entry: | terrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile, dreaded, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, petrifying, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | good, great, nice, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | abominable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awful, detestable |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, contemptible, cursed, despicable, disgusting, foul, grim, gross*, hairy*, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrible, loathsome, lousy, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sleazy*, stinking, terrible, vile, wretched, grody, horrid |
| Antonyms: | alluring, appealing, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, lovable, pleasant, sweet, wonderful, likeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astounding, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, intimidating, mean, shocking, terrible, terrifying, daunting, disheartening, dismaying, grody, horrid, horrific, petrifying, scaring, the end, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | comforting, encouraging, satisfying, reassuring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, dreadful, exalted, fearful, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, daunting, fearsome, horrifying, real gone, something else, stupefying, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | unamazing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | awful, blameworthy, bummer*, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer*, dreadful, execrable, faulty, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched, afflictive, godawful, horrifying, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful; horrible |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious, horrid |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
| Synonyms: | adverse, calamitous, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred |
| Antonyms: | blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | dread |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, terrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, awe-inspiring, awful, creepy*, dire, frightening, frightful, terrible, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreadful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, frightening |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, creepy*, dire, distressing, fearful, formidable, frightful, frozen, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross*, hideous, icky*, lousy, mean, monstrous, rotten, shameful, shocking, spooky, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, wicked, godawful, grody, horrendous, horrific, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrible, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, corpselike, deathlike, horrendous, horrid, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grisly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky*, blood-stained, grody, horrid |
| Notes: | grisly (from Germanic gri- 'fear, terror') is 'gruesome' while grizzly means 'streaked with gray' |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gruesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, awful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, hideous, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, shocking, sick*, spine-tingling*, terrible, terrifying, ugly, weird*, daunting, grody, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, pleasant, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hellish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fiendish; unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abominable, accursed, atrocious, barbarous, cruel, damnable, damned, demonic, devilish, diabolical, horrible, infernal, monstrous, nefarious, satanic, terrible, vicious, wicked |
| Main Entry: | hideous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grotesque, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, appalling, awful, beast, bestial, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, ugly, unsightly, weird, horrendous, horrid, uncomely |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, charming, delightful, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible/horrendous/horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, very unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, magnificent, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | baffling, complex, complicated, difficult, elaborate, formidable, hard, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, perplexing, puzzling, rough, rugged, sophisticated, sticky*, terrible, thorny*, tough, tricky, uphill*, Gordian, effortful, mazy, mystifying, nodulous, problematical, ramified, reticular |
| Antonyms: | simple, uncomplicated, untroublesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate*, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile, disliked, no good |
| Antonyms: | good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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