terrible

What is the Definition of terrible?

Adjective:

  1. causing fear or dread or terror
  2. exceptionally bad or displeasing
  3. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
  4. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

How can I use terrible in a sentence?

Quirrell rolled off him, his face blistering, too, and then Harry knew: Quirrell could not touch his bare skin, not without suffering terrible pain — his only chance was to keep hold of Quirrell, keep him in enough pain to stop him from doing a curse.

Quirrell screamed and tried to throw Harry off — the pain in Harry's head was building — he could not see — he could only hear Quirrell's terrible shrieks and Voldemort's yells of, KILL HIM!

Howling with pain, the troll twisted and flailed its club, with Harry clinging on for dear life; any second, the troll was going to rip him off or catch him a terrible blow with the club.

Where there should have been a back to Quirrell's head, there was a face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen.

Harry and Hermione rushed up to the hospital wing at the end of the day to find Ron in a terrible state in bed.


Other meanings of terrible (synonyms, cognates).


ENRU
terrible
  • ужасный
terribleness
  • ужас


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