Terrific

Definition: Terrific

Terrific

Adjective

1. Very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle".

2. Extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement".

3. Causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "terrific" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Terrific \Ter*rif"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression terrificus; from terrere to frighten facere to make. See Terror, and Fact.]. (references)

Synonyms: Terrific

Fear

Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian.

Pain

Shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.

Crosswords: Terrific

Who's not only a terrific dancer (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.)

You smell terrific! (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Tom Shadyac)

And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are trying to make a difference in the world (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

Oh, yes. They make terrific pair (Big Daddy; writing credit: Steve Franks)

The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed (The In-Laws; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970)

Mr. Terrific (1967)

Tom Terrific (1957)

Slightly Terrific (1944)

Simply Terrific (1938)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Trim and Terrific Louisiana Kitchen (reference)

• Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s (and Other Terrific Textiles of the 20s, 30s, & 40s) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Look Good Feel Terrific (reference)

• Taking Care of Terrific (reference)

• Terrific Brunches for Two (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Super Terrific Happy Hour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

It was apparent that some terrific storm was shaking the core of Gran' Morgan's being. Credit: Library of Congress.

Diffy's response was a terrific snore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't laugh, fellers! those Senatorial sleeping powders are terrific!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Terrific hurricane sweeps San Juan--thousands homeless, damage estimated at millions in Porto Rico's capital. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Lost heat is lost power, lost time and lost money. Furnaces for remelting and refining high quality steels and alloys are lined with refractory bricks such as these, made to withstand and to "reflect" terrific heat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fresnes-en-Woevre, in the St. Mihiel sector where terrific fighting took place. Credit: Library of Congress.

Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862, in which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole " school" of Rebel steamers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them

There exists nothing more terrific than this kind of contemplation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "terrific": terrific speed. Additional references.

Beginning with "terrific": terrific-looking.

Ending with "terrific": look-terrific.

Albanian

i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, towering, tragic, tremendous), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرعب (alarming, appalling, awesome, dreadful, frightening, frightful, hair raising, horrible, horrific, horrifying, terrible, terrifying), ‏هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ‏عظيم (bestead, bulky, eminent, fantastic, gigantic, grand, great, magnificent, majestic, major, mighty, mogul, sensational, sizable, sublime), ‏جنوني (crazy, furious, insane, lunatic, madcap, manic), ‏إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, rare, remarkable, singular, special, thundering, uncommon, unusual), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, scary, terrible, tremendous, wicked), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), огромен (enormous, formidable, gargantuan, giantlike, herculean, howling, huge, mammoth, mighty, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, oversize, planetary, portentous, prodigious, slashing, super, terrible, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unwieldy, vast, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), знаменит (celebrated, cunning, famous, glorious, gone, great, illustrious, inconceivable, lustrous, prominent, proud, reputed, rousing). (various references)

Chinese 

了不起 (amazing, extraordinary), 妙极. (various references)

Czech

senzaèní (delicious, fine, gorgeous, grand, great, groovy, hot, magic, mean, sensational, smashing, startling, stunning, swell, thrilling, wonderful), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, unholy, unspeakable, villainous, weird), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, splendid, stupendous, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grim, hateful, hellish, horrible, mortal, terrible, tremendous), fantastický (dishy, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, gorgeous, great, incredible, like a dream, magic, out of this world, smashing, sublime, unbelievable), bájeèný (blissful, fabulous, glorious, gorgeous, great, groovy, magic, magnificent, nailing, priceless, wonderful, wondrous, yummy), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, splendid, stupendous, tremendous, wonderful), šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, furious, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, tomfool). (various references)

Farsi 

فوق العاده (Extra, Extraordinary, Inestimable, Phenomenal, Precious, Singular, Strenuous, Supernatural), مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Hideous, Horrendous, Horrible, Horrid, Macabre, Tremendous, Ugsome), هولناک (Ghastly, Terrible), ترسناک (Dire, Ghastly, Grim, Hideous, Horrid, Lurid, Macabre, Nightmarish, Redoubtable, Terrible, Tremendous, Ugsome), عظیم (August, Enormous, Glorious, Great, Massive, Tremendous, Vast, Whopper). (various references)

Finnish

voittajaa juhlittiin (the winner was fźted, the winner was given a terrific reception). (various references)

French

terrifiant, super, sensationnel, fou, formidable, fantastique, extraordinaire, épouvantable (terrible), énorme. (various references)

German

wahnsinnig (brilliant, crazed, crazy, delirious, deliriously, demented, frantic, frenzied, incredibly, insane, lunatic, mad, madly, maniac, maniacal, nuts, psychotically, raving), unmenschlich (fiendish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inhumanly, tremendous, unhuman), sagenhaft (fabled, fabulous, fabulously, fantastic, gorgeous, legendary, phenomenal, sensational, sensationally, unbelievable, unbelievably), rasend (berserk, burning, desperate, excruciating, frenetic, frenzied, furious, infuriated, livid, rabid, racking, raging, rapturous, raving, scorching, splitting, tearing, wild), rasant (fast, flat, lightning, meteoric, racy, rapid, raunchy, scorching, vivacious), phantastisch (awesomeUS, bizarre, chimeric, cracking, fanciful, fantastic, fantastically, glorious, incredible, luscious, phenomenal, stupendous, unreal, visionarily, visionary), mächtig (heavy, heroic, heroically, jolly, massive, mightily, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, puissantly, spanking, strong, terrifically, thick, tremendous, tremendously), klasse (bonzer, bracket, category, class, classy, cracking, denomination, form, grade, great, jim-dandy, league, neat, rate, rating, smashing, tremendous, wild), irrsinnig (crazy, insane, insanely, lunatic, lunaticly, mad, mind-boggling, mortal, rare, tremendous), großartig (admirable, brillant, brilliantly, excellent, genial, gorgeous, gorgeously, grand, grandiose, grandiosely, grandly, great, greatly, immense, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, prodigious, splendid, superb, superbly, superior, wonderful), grandios (fantastic, grand, grandiose, magnificent, majestic, superb). (various references)

Greek 

υπέροχοσ (delicious, gorgeous, preeminent, superb, surpassing, wonderful), τρομακτικόσ (alarming, appalling, scary, tremendous). (various references)

Hebrew 

איום (awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fell, frightful, grim, hideous, intimidation, menace, terrible, threat), כביר (enormous, grand, huge, immense, mighty, stupendous, thundering, tremendous), � ורא (bloody, damned, dire, dread, fearful, frightful, hellish, shocking, terrible, unholy). (various references)

Hungarian

szörnyű (appalling, dire, dreadful, egregious, fearsome, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, morbid, nefandous, terrible), rémületet keltő, iszonyatos (abhorrent), iszonyú (horrendous, horrible), félelmetes (awe inspiring, awesome, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grim, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, tremendous), csuda klassz, óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, grandiose, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Italian

terribile (abysmal, appaling, appalling, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, gruesome, horrible, splitting, terrible, tremendous), stupendo (marvellous, marvelous, stunning, stupendous, wonderful, wondrous), straordinario (enormous, extra, extraordinary, extraordinary thing, formidable, immense, overtime, overwork, special, tremendous, unique), spaventoso (appaling, appalling, awesome, awful, dire, direful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, fearful, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, horrible, nasty), favoloso (fabulous, spectacular), eccezionale (bumper, cool, exception, exceptional, exeption, extraordinary, extreme, outstanding, remarkable, swell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

凄まじい (absurd, amazing, awful, dreadful, fierce, terrible, tremendous), 凄い (amazing, dreadful, great, terrible, to a great extent, wonderful), 凄じい (absurd, amazing, awful, dreadful, fierce, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すさまじい (absurd, amazing, awful, dreadful, fierce, terrible, tremendous), す�"い (amazing, dreadful, great, terrible, to a great extent, wonderful). (various references)

Korean 

대단한. (various references)

Manx

yindyssagh (admirable, marvellous, prodigious, rare, surprising, wonderer, wonderful), atchyssagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

errifictay.(various references)

Portuguese

tremendo (frightful, parlous, tearing, terrible, tremendous), terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, gruesome, horrible, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), terrífico, sensacional (fantastic, fantastical, lurid, sensational, startling, thrilling), incrível (incredible, unbelievable, wondrous), formidável (clinking, formidable, redoubtable, redoubted, ripping, scrumptious, slashing, sledge-hammer, smashing, snorting, spanking, stupendous, super, tremendous), espantoso (appaling, appalling, astonishing, astounding, colossal, dreadful, fearsome, frightful, phenomenal, surprising, terrible, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous), enorme (big, bloodcurdling, cursed, deuced, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, howling, huge, immense, large, mammoth, measureless, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, rousing, stupendous, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, unco, unconscionable, untold, walloping, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Romanian

teribil (awful, awfully, damnably, direful, dreadful, exceedingly, excruciating, extraordinary, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, like old boot, terrible, terribly, tremendous), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), crâncen (awful, dreadful, ferocious, fiery, terrible), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, horrid, howling, terrible, tremendous, unearthly), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, tremendous). (various references)

Russian 

ужасающий (appalling, bloodcurdling, horrific, spine-chilling), огромный (biggish, cosmic, devastating, enormous, enourmous, giantlike, huge, immense, knock out, massive, monster, prodigious, tremendous, whacking, whopping), потрясающий (appalling, breath-taking, corking, fab, gobsmacked, killing, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rattling good, shocking, startling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strahovit (dreadful, fearsome, frightful, horrible, scary, terrible), strašan (almighty, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, horrible, horrid, howling, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible), izvanredan (extraordinary, masterly, nifty, outstanding, raving, remarkable, spanking, super, superb, whacking), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb). (various references)

Spanish

tremendo (awful, deuced, fearful, gross, thundering, tremendous, whopping), terrorífico (gothic), terrífico, magni/fico, estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stunning, stupendous, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, wonderful, yippee). (various references)

Swedish

fruktansvärd (awful, fearful, formidable, heinous, horrible, redoubtable, tearing, terrible). (various references)

Turkish

olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, unearthly), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, thundering, unco, wild), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrifying), çok güzel (adorable, divine, inspired, peachy, slashing, spiffing, spiffy, superbly, two thumbs up, very good). (various references)

Ukrainian

колосальний (colossal, decuman, huge, monumental, ocean-wide, pyramidal, stupendous, super-duper), жахаючий (horrifying). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khủng khiếp (blood-curdling, frightful, horrendous, horrific, lurid, macabre, tremendous). (various references)

terrificus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "terrific": terrifically. (additional references)

Words ending with "terrific": superterrific. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Terrific" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terif, teriffic, terific, terrefic, terrfific, terrif, terrifc, terrife, terriffic, terrifico, trific. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ferritic.

-2 letters: ferric.

-3 letters: cirri, citer, crier, firer, frier, icier, recti, refit, ricer, rifer, trice, trier.

-4 letters: cire, cite, etic, fice, fire, fret, frit, reft, reif, rice, rife, rift, rite, tier, tire, tref.

-5 letters: eft, err, fer, fet, fie, fir, fit, ice, ire, rec, ref, rei, ret, rif, tic, tie.

+1 letter: artificer, certifier, rectifier.

+2 letters: artificers, certifiers, fratricide, rectifiers.

+3 letters: fratricides, recertified, recertifies.

+4 letters: fluorimetric, precertified, precertifies, recertifying, refractivity, terrifically.

+5 letters: certificatory, counterfiring, ferrimagnetic, precertifying, superterrific.