Definition: 1. Very unpleasant; making you feel very unhappy, upset or frightened. 2. Causing great harm or injury; very serious. 3. Exceptionally bad or displeasing. 4. Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality. 5. Extremely distressing.
Use 'terrible' in a sentence:
1. What a terrible noise!
2. I won't be going there again in a hurry ─ the food was terrible.
3. Your driving is terrible!
4. The flies were a terrible torment.
5. Stop making that terrible racket!
6. Moments later, I heard a terrible crash.
7. The weather was terrible but we carried on regardless.
8. Leaving home was a terrible wrench for me.
9. I could tell by the look on her face that something terrible had happened.
10. He had a terrible stutter.
11. I feel terrible—I think I'll go to bed.
12. She woke up with a terrible hangover.
13. She admits her French is terrible.
14. I have a terrible conscience about it.
15. She averted her eyes from the terrible scene in front of her.
16. I'm in a terrible predicament.
17. It was a time of terrible uncertainty.
18. He had suffered terrible injuries.
19. We all groaned at his terrible jokes.
20. She held back, not knowing how to break the terrible news.
21. Greed is a terrible vice.
22. A terrible thought flashed through my mind.
23. I had a terrible job to persuade her to come.
24. A terrible sight met their eyes.
25. You've made a terrible mess of this job.
26. The room was in a terrible mess.
27. I was a terrible fool, you know.
28. He exacted a terrible revenge for their treatment of him.
29. She was swearing something terrible.
30. Her own problems paled into insignificance beside this terrible news.
31. Losing his job came as a terrible blow to him.
32. He may be a good father but he's a terrible husband.
33. The dream awakened terrible memories.
34. The team took a terrible beating.
35. That's a terrible thing to say.
36. A terrible thing happened last night.
37. That's a terrible thing to say!
38. No civilized country should allow such terrible injustices.
39. What manner of man could do such a terrible thing?
40. I often have terrible nightmares.
41. I've just had a terrible thought.
42. The play got terrible reviews and quickly died a death.
