Synonyms for terrific
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Fantastic
fantastic, wonderful, tremendous, excellent, good, marvelous US, marvellous UK, awesome, brilliant, phenomenal, outstanding, stupendous, glorious, wondrous, grand, rattling, fierce, dandy, heavenly, howling, osm, superb, splendid
2. Terrible — causing terror; terrifying
terrible, awful, formidable, horrible, dreadful, horrid, frightful, grisly, terrifying, appalling, shocking, horrific, fearful, ghastly, horrifying, grim, alarming, dire, direful, horrendous, frightening, hideous
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing terror; terrifying.
- adj. 2
Very strong or intense; excessive, tremendous.
I've got a terrific hangover this morning.
Related words
- Word family
- terrifically terrible terrify terrifying terror terrorize
Example sentences
- wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
- excellent Tom's car is well-kept and in excellent condition.
- fantastic It would be fantastic if you could do that for me.
- tremendous Fadil must have felt a tremendous amount of guilt.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| terrific | rising | |
| wonderful | rising | |
| excellent | falling | |
| fantastic | rising | |
| tremendous | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- osm
- 4 letters
- good1, grim1, dire1
- 5 letters
- grand1, awful2, dandy2
- 6 letters
- superb2, fierce1, horrid2, grisly2
- 7 letters
- awesome2, fearful2, hideous3, howling2, ghastly2, direful
- 8 letters
- terrible3, horrible3, glorious3, shocking2, heavenly3, splendid2, horrific3, dreadful2, alarming3, rattling2, wondrous2
- 9 letters
- wonderful3, fantastic3, excellent3, brilliant2, marvelous3, appalling3, frightful2
- 10 letters
- tremendous3, terrifying4, phenomenal4, formidable4, horrifying4, marvellous3, horrendous3, stupendous3
- 11 letters
- outstanding3, frightening3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (awful2 = 2 syllables).