(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(13) Negredo almost extended City's advantage but a terrific volley was kept out by Guzan, before Nasri was withdrawn for his own good and Villa were subjected to the pace of Jesús Navas, whose first cross from the right almost produced a third goal.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.
Wondrous
Definition:
(n.) In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
(a.) Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
Example Sentences:
(1) That moment, however, before the blossom breaks, is perhaps the most wondrous.
(2) The second series of BBC1’s hit drama Happy Valley ended on Tuesday night , bowing out in a wondrous blaze of confrontation, perceptive resolution and poignant revelation.
(3) To put it another way, I trust that among the properties of this wondrous device will be the ability to make me invisible.
(4) The signs are that children's films are coming round to the idea of strong female heroes, even if Studio Ghibli still remains a wondrous anomaly.
(5) The Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joined the campaign "because censorship is the primal enemy of the artist and of a democratic society.
(6) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
(7) Bale only threatened intermittently now, another wondrous free-kick from him in the 69th minute hurtling inches wide.
(8) Critics feast on Hayley's straight-talking manner, her Oasis trouser suits and her neck scarves, like she's some sort of wondrous oddity.
(9) Their clockwork cities are ever more immaculate, but Morin admits they fall short on the people front: the sense of a city as a wondrous, unconducted symphony of individual minds.
(10) Scattering out around the goals and small pitches informal games are played in mixed groups as pretty much every kid here takes a turn to demonstrate their range of tricks, traps and flicks on that wondrous green shag.
(11) If we get another year of this, we’ll be in an absolute world of hurt Col McKenzie By an accident of geography, the tourist operators say, the most wondrous sites for public viewing, which tend to fall on the edge of the continental shelf near cooler, deeper waters, are the ones also spared the worst damage from bleaching.
(12) But far beyond his family, he leaves a host of disconsolate people, from his closest friends to those whose only acquaintance was through what he wrote and said, who know they have lost a rare, wondrously talented and wholly original man.
(13) How long the honeymoon would last was anyone’s guess, but it was wondrous to behold.
(14) Ed Balls (@edballsmp) Ed Balls April 28, 2011 Now Ed Balls Day is actually a thing, as users mark the anniversary of this wondrous event by... er... tweeting Ed Balls.
(15) I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal.
(16) But hats off to the TV coverage that accompanied the story, showing us what that ancient and wondrous Turkish civilisation was all about.
(17) In formative years for my generation, City played enlightened football, won the League Cup at Wembley with a wondrous Dennis Tueart overhead kick in 1976 , and played in European competitions on those starry midweek nights.
(18) When I was little he embellished the story with suitably wondrous detail – the mysterious howling he'd heard at night, the yeti footprints he'd seen in the snow – and even his antiquated climbing gear, all cracked leather and polished wood, seemed like artefacts from an age of greater magic.
(19) He was a giant heart, a fireball friend, a wondrous gift from the gods.
(20) It is a wondrous experience, worth the competitive wait.