Usually means: Extremely bad, distressing, or unpleasant.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word terrible:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. terrible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. terrible: Merriam-Webster
  3. terrible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. terrible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. terrible: Collins English Dictionary
  6. terrible: Vocabulary.com
  7. Terrible, terrible: Wordnik
  8. terrible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. terrible: Wiktionary
  10. terrible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. terrible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. terrible: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. terrible: Dictionary.com
  14. terrible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. terrible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Terrible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Terrible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. terrible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. terrible: Rhymezone
  20. terrible, terrible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. terrible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Terrible: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. terrible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. terrible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. terrible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. terrible: FreeDictionary.org

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terrible: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. terrible: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. terrible: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See terribleness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
adjective:  Formidable, powerful.
adjective:  Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
adjective:  Unpleasant; disagreeable.
adjective:  Very bad; lousy.
adverb:  (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.

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