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Terrific

adjective

Very great or intense. "A terrific thunderstorm storm" , "Fought a terrific battle"

Extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers. Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous. "The film was fantastic!" , "A howling success" , "A marvelous collection of rare books" , "Had a rattling conversation about politics" , "A tremendous achievement"

Causing extreme terror. Synonym: terrifying.

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... which the tides had swept and moulded, and which had in places risen to the surface, and caused the wreck of many a vessel. Fragments of these lay under the rocks they had split upon, but the wandering family had no thoughts for them; wonder and pity had been exhausted among exciting and terrific scenes. They thought only of forcing their way over the rocks, and feared to think how much of this they had to traverse before they should come to what had been the shore, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various

... a large fire as a signal to the Hook's party that we had passed the TERRIFIC rapid ...

— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin

... not yet permitted to write upon the plastered doorway of an alehouse, or the suspended sign of an inn, "The Old Magpie," or "The Saracen's Head," substituting that cold description for the lively effigies of the plumed chatterer, or the turban'd frown of the terrific soldan. That early and more simple age considered alike the necessities of all ranks, and depicted the symbols of good cheer so as to be obvious to all capacities; well judging that a man who could not read a syllable might nevertheless ...

— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott

... course which he hoped would enable him to steer clear of the horde of British men-of-war which then infested the American coast. But in so doing he fell in with a natural enemy, which came near proving fatal. A terrific thunderstorm, gradually growing into a tornado, crossed the path of the ship. The ocean was lashed into waves mountain high. The crash of the thunder rent the sky. A stroke of lightning struck the main-mast, and ripped up the deck, narrowly ...

— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

... steel, there were enormous pieces with wheels reinforced by metal plates, somewhat like the farming engines which Desnoyers had used on his ranch for plowing. Like smaller beasts, more agile and playful in their incessant yelping, the groups of '75 were mingled with the terrific monsters. ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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