English Dictionary |
TERRIBLENESS
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does terribleness mean?
• TERRIBLENESS (noun)
The noun TERRIBLENESS has 1 sense:
1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness
Familiarity information: TERRIBLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality of extreme unpleasantness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness
Hypernyms ("terribleness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terribleness"):
frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)
Derivation:
terrible (causing fear or dread or terror)
terrible (exceptionally bad or displeasing)
terrible (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)
terrible (extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Boys will be boys and play boyish games." (Latin proverb)
"A tree starts with a seed." (Arabic proverb)
"Better late than never." (Czech proverb)