terrible

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

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