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1. If you describe something or someone as terrific, you are very pleased with them or very impressed by them. (INFORMAL) What a terrific idea!... Everybody there was having a terrific time... = great ADJ 2. Terrific means very great in amount, degree, or intensity. All of a sudden there was a terrific bang and a flash of smoke. = tremendous ADJ: ADJ n c darkgreen]emphasis • terrifically ...the only child of terrifically repressed parents. ADV: usu ADV adj/-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: Latin ~us, from terrere to frighten Date: 1667 1. a. very bad ; frightful b. exciting or fit to excite fear or awe a ~ thunderstorm 2. extraordinary ~ speed 3. unusually fine ; magnificent ~ weather • ~ally adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 colloq. a of great size or intensity. b excellent (did a terrific job). c excessive (making a terrific noise). 2 causing terror. Derivatives terrifically adv. Etymology: L terrificus f. terrere frighten ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ужасающий terrific spectacle —- страшное зрелище terrific explosion —- ужасный взрыв a terrific outburst of rage —- страшный приступ ярости his face assumed a terrific expression —- его лицо стало страшным 2. эмоц-усил. колоссальный; необычайный, потрясающий terrific applause —- оглушительные аплодисменты 3. эмоц-усил. замечательный; волнующий, производящий огромное впечатление, потрясающий he is a terrific football player —- он потрясающий футболист the party was terrific —- вечер прошел очень весело ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1667, "frightening," from L. terrificus "causing terror or fear," from terrere "fill with fear" + root of facere "to make." Weakened sensed of "very great, severe" (terrific headache) appeared 1809; colloquial sense of "excellent" began 1888. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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