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terrible
English
Etymology
From Middle English terrible, from Old French, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terre? (“I frighten, terrify, alarm; I deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?.??.bl?/, /?t?.??.bl?/
- Homophone: tearable, in some accents
Adjective
terrible (comparative terribler or more terrible, superlative terriblest or most terrible)
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable.
- Very bad; lousy.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:frightening
Antonyms
- (very bad): excellent
Adverb
terrible (comparative more terrible, superlative most terrible)
- (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- terrible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- terrible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- treblier
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /t??ri.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /te?ri.ble/
Adjective
terrible (masculine and feminine plural terribles)
- terrible (causing fear)
- terrible (formidable, intense)
French
Etymology
From Latin terribilis
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?.?ibl/
Adjective
terrible (plural terribles)
- (all senses) terrible
- (colloquial) great, excellent
Derived terms
- enfant terrible
Related terms
- terreur
- terriblement
- terrifier
Further reading
- “terrible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin terribilis. Cognate with English terrible.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?rible/, [t?e?ri.??le]
- Hyphenation: te?rri?ble
Adjective
terrible (plural terribles)
- terrible, awful, horrible (very bad)
- appalling (shocking, causing consternation)
- terrific (very great or intense)
Derived terms
- terribilísimo
- terriblemente
Related terms
- terror
Further reading
- “terrible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
terrible From the web:
- what terrible thing it was
- what terrible mean
- when terrible things happen
- when something terrible happens
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corrupt
English
Alternative forms
- corrumpt (archaic)
- corrump (obsolete)
- corroupt (rare)
Etymology
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrump?, corrumpere (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpere (“to break in pieces”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????pt/
- Rhymes: -?pt
Adjective
corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.
Synonyms
- corrupted
Translations
Verb
corrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- (archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
- he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Translations
Related terms
- corruptible
- corruption
- incorruptible
References
- corrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- corrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corruptus or from Middle French corrupt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??r?pt/
- Hyphenation: cor?rupt
- Rhymes: -?pt
Adjective
corrupt (comparative corrupter, superlative corruptst)
- corrupt (lacking integrity, being prone to discriminating, open to bribes, etc.)
- (textual criticism) corrupt (containing (many) errors)
- deprave, morally corrupt
Inflection
Related terms
- corrumperen
- corruptie
Descendants
- Afrikaans: korrup
- ? Indonesian: korup
- ? West Frisian: korrupt
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corruptus.
Adjective
corrupt m (feminine singular corrupte, masculine plural corrupts, feminine plural corruptes)
- corrupt (impure; not in its original form)
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- what corrupted macbeth
- what corrupts a hard drive
- what corrupts leaders
- what corrupts a file
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