horridold-fashionedinformal

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bad weather, conditions, situations, etc.
badIf the weather is bad, we'll have to find something else to do.
poorShe's 87 and in poor health.
direThe predictions for the economy are dire.
grimShe was quickly brought back to the grim reality of her life.
awfulThe smell from the bins was awful.

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a bad person, action, etc.
badA very bad man is getting what he deserves.
evilHe was an evil dictator who murdered his own people.
wickedRapunzel was trapped inside a tower by a wicked witch.
awfulShe was truly awful to him through their entire marriage.
terribleHe was a terrible husband.
I felt terrible last night but I feel fine this morning.我昨晚感觉很不舒服，但今天早上就好了。
That restaurant was terrible - I'm never going back there again.那家饭店糟透了——我再也不会到那里去吃饭了。
Most of these women are very poorly paid and work in terrible conditions.这些妇女大多工资很低，且工作条件恶劣。
I've got no sense of rhythm, so I'm a terrible dancer.我根本没有节奏感，所以舞跳得很差劲。
I'll be blunt - that last piece of work you did was terrible.我就直说了——你创作的最后一件作品糟糕透了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not of good quality
am-dram
appallingly
atrocious
atrociously
awfully
awfulness
cheesy
hacky
inadequacy
inadequate
inadequately
janky
shite
skanky
sort
tawdrily
tawdriness
tawdry
trinket
wretched

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Serious and unpleasant

terribleadjective (BAD AT)

very bad at doing something: 糟透的，蹩脚的
You're a terrible liar.你真不擅长说谎。
I'm a terrible skier/swimmer/dancer.我不擅长滑雪／游泳／跳舞。

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Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be on your beam endsidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
the rot sets inidiom

terribleadjective (VERY GREAT)

informal
used to emphasize the great degree of something: 极其
This project is a terrible waste of money.这个项目完全是在浪费钱财。
UKShe's a terrible nuisance.她是个极讨厌的人。
I had a terrible headache, but even so I went to the concert.我头疼得要命，但尽管如此我还是去了音乐会。
I find threading a needle a terrible fiddle.我觉得穿针是件难事。
She ran from the house in a terrible rage, her arms flailing in the air.她怒不可遏地从房子里跑出来，手臂在空中乱挥乱打。
She's a terrible gossip.她是个很要命的长舌妇。
I had a terrible hangover the next morning.第二天上午我宿醉反应很强烈。

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Linguistics: very & extreme
abjectly
absolutely
abundantly
abundantly clear
beyond
biblical
downright
extraordinarily
extremely
infinitely
particularly
profoundly
stupefyingly
super
super-duper
super-spectacular
superabundantly
totally
violently
whatever

terrible | American Dictionary

terrible
adjective
us/ˈter·ə·bəl/
very unpleasant or serious or bad:
I saw terrible things happen.
My mother was a terrible cook.

Examples of terrible

terrible
Conferences, committees, faculty meetings, have made life pretty terrible.
The tendency of most writers to approach this paradox as a terrible impasse did not prevent their endorsing it by a kind of via negativa.
On the first two occasions it preceded some terrible event, so he is in a state of great apprehension.
The terrible consideration is that, even so, they should be able to violate the integrity of events.
The will is not rational or beautiful or good; it is irrational, blind, terrible.
There were many victims of those terrible years.
Of course, such experiments on animals also raise moral issues, especially in the absence of any justification based on curing terrible diseases.
Autonomy now appears a problem, in the context of the terrible organ shortage we face.
There is something terrible about seeing others go about life with rational deliberateness while we continue to bumble around.
We wanted an outcome that would be a true reflection of the terrible extent to which we were dispirited by the choices.
Moreover, although there is no doubt that witnessing the executions was a terrible thing, the powers of a witch may have been equally terrible.
Traumatic events take place and their terrible effects may last a lifetime.
To highlight the terrible conditions at the plantations, he drew quite a harsh picture of women's life in the village home.
The terrible thing that happened to him, through no fault of his own, was that he did those things.
As consc iousness returned, she was aware of intense pain, feeling fogg y, drif ting in and out, and terrible depression, nearing despair.
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