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terrific Definition


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terrific
adj
    1. colloq
      Marvellous; excellent.
    2. colloq
      Very great or powerful.
      Example: a terrific storm
      Thesaurus: tremendous, great, immense, shocking, thunderous, world-shaking; Antonym: common, ordinary, conventional.
    3. Very frightening; terrifying.
Derivative: terrifically
adverb
    Etymology: 17c: from Latin terrificus frightful.



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