(a.) Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) 7.46am BST Thanks for all the comments on the blog this week - terrific how you are chiming in.
(2) AW: Well, I think a rather terrific movie, actually.
(3) The tour continued to the excellent Hector Pieterson memorial and museum and the Regina Mundi church, a rallying point during the struggle, now hosting a terrific photography exhibition.
(4) You've shown "elan, dedication, skill and customary energy" while "producing a terrific newspaper and keeping the staff motivated and happy".
(5) That would have made a terrific programme.” • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email media@theguardian.com or phone 020 3353 3857.
(6) As we know only too well at ITV, a closely fought contest in front of a live audience for a big prize that only one person can win makes for terrific television.
(7) "He was also a terrific storyteller whose life had provided no end of material.
(8) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(9) We start by talking about Salford, which will soon be the new home of Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport, BBC Breakfast and CBBC (Patten was there only yesterday, looking at MediaCity's "terrific" new facilities).
(10) "It's a terrific honour and we'll show up smiling."
(11) The former Liverpool and England team-mate of Gerrard told the broadcaster Talksport: “You can only be judged on the season you’ve just played and last season he was terrific.
(12) The Dragon, added Mortimer, was a 'terrific school' where he learnt more than he ever did afterwards.
(13) Negredo almost extended City's advantage but a terrific volley was kept out by Guzan, before Nasri was withdrawn for his own good and Villa were subjected to the pace of Jesús Navas, whose first cross from the right almost produced a third goal.
(14) "It's very seductive and I've done it a certain amount, but it does take a terrific toll.
(15) I don’t know what they’re singing but they were terrific.” It was blue and white that dominated the Wembley panoramic but ultimately their team came up short.
(16) It's an eye-catching side-narrative character part, certainly not the lead like in Hellboy, but Perlman's scenes were mainly with Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , and the pair have terrific chemistry.
(17) The five-goal first half was terrific entertainment .
(18) But he is facing his first and biggest challenge in living up to that image with his pledge to erase the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, to repeal and replace it with “something terrific”.
(19) They are a talented squad of players and they’ve got some terrific individuals.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kaisa-talo blends into the historic facade of the city There are a number of terrific old buildings in the city, but I’m going to pick Helsinki University’s new library building, Kaisa-talo.
Terrify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make terrible.
(v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
(2) The woman who had lost her husband and son had another son, 20 years old, and she was terrified.
(3) "I find that terrifying frankly; safety comes from being in a team.
(4) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(5) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(6) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
(7) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(8) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(9) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(10) Chained and terrified, she made her choice and lied.
(11) I lived through terrifying moments during the steepest of my professional learning curves and was perpetually sleep-deprived.
(12) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
(13) This is legitimately terrifying.” Several commentators compared Comey’s sudden sacking with the 1973 “Saturday night massacre” when President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to look into the Watergate affair.
(14) I’d have hated to hear that Russell had been dragged, terrified, to his death.
(15) A Peta statement added: "We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.
(16) So, to summarise, Shorten and his speechwriting team looked out into the mildly terrifying and endlessly fracturing political landscape of January 2017 and concluded that politics had to be personal.
(17) Meanwhile the Dublin government, terrified of the impact that a UK withdrawal could have on its own economy, has warned darkly of immigration and custom posts returning.
(18) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
(19) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
(20) It wasn't that the drinking was great, but I was so terrified of not drinking.