terrible

adj.

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound

ADVERB

▪ really, truly

▪

I thought something really terrible had happened.

▪ absolutely, just, quite, simply

▪

He suddenly collapsed—it was simply terrible.

▪ pretty, rather

▪ very

▪

Nothing very terrible happened.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

It must have been terrible for the survivors.

Terrible is used with these nouns: ↑accident, ↑acne, ↑act, ↑atrocity, ↑beating, ↑bind, ↑blow, ↑blunder, ↑bore, ↑burden, ↑burn, ↑business, ↑catastrophe, ↑clarity, ↑commotion, ↑complex, ↑condition, ↑consequence, ↑cost, ↑cough, ↑crash, ↑crime, ↑crisis, ↑cry, ↑curse, ↑danger, ↑day, ↑death, ↑deed, ↑dilemma, ↑din, ↑disappointment, ↑disaster, ↑disservice, ↑dream, ↑drought, ↑face, ↑fall, ↑famine, ↑fate, ↑fear, ↑feeling, ↑fight, ↑force, ↑fright, ↑fuss, ↑gash, ↑guilt, ↑habit, ↑handwriting, ↑headache, ↑heat, ↑hurry, ↑illness, ↑incident, ↑indictment, ↑injury, ↑injustice, ↑insult, ↑job, ↑journey, ↑liar, ↑loneliness, ↑longing, ↑loss, ↑luck, ↑massacre, ↑memory, ↑mess, ↑mistake, ↑misunderstanding, ↑mood, ↑murder, ↑news, ↑nightmare, ↑noise, ↑odds, ↑ordeal, ↑pain, ↑place, ↑power, ↑precedent, ↑predicament, ↑problem, ↑racket, ↑rage, ↑realization, ↑reputation, ↑retribution, ↑risk, ↑roar, ↑row, ↑saga, ↑scare, ↑scene, ↑scream, ↑secret, ↑service, ↑shadow, ↑shame, ↑shape, ↑shock, ↑sight, ↑situation, ↑slaughter, ↑smell, ↑sorrow, ↑state, ↑stench, ↑storm, ↑story, ↑strain, ↑suffering, ↑suspicion, ↑tale, ↑taste, ↑temper, ↑thing, ↑thirst, ↑thought, ↑threat, ↑time, ↑toll, ↑traffic, ↑tragedy, ↑trouble, ↑truth, ↑vengeance, ↑waste, ↑weather, ↑winter, ↑wrong