terribleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəbəl/, /ˈtɛɹɪbəl/
• (米国発音, dialectal, 古風な用法) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝbəl/, /ˈtɛɚbəl/^[1][2]
• Homophone: tearable, in some accents

形容詞

terrible (comparative terribler または more terrible, superlative terriblest または most terrible)

1. Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome

   The witch laid a terrible curse on him.

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

     People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

2. Formidable, powerful.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:

     […] 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.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 96:

     "He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer.

3. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

   He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.

4. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

   The food was terrible, but it was free.

5. Very bad; lousy.
   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:

     The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.

   Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:frightening

反意語

• (very bad): excellent

関連する語

副詞

terrible (comparative more terrible, superlative most terrible)

1. (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Ware: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 59:

     ‘Oh, terrible bad, sir, terrible deep the snow is,’ said the hedgehog.

参照

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

アナグラム

• treblier