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terrific (adjective)
1. Frightful; causing terror; terrifying; very bad or unpleasant.
2. Informal: Causing awe or amazement; extraordinarily great or intense.
3. Extremely good; wonderful: "We had a terrific vacation."
4. Etymology: from Latin terrificus, "causing terror or fear", from terrere, "fill with fear" plus root of facere, "to make".
2. Informal: Causing awe or amazement; extraordinarily great or intense.
3. Extremely good; wonderful: "We had a terrific vacation."
4. Etymology: from Latin terrificus, "causing terror or fear", from terrere, "fill with fear" plus root of facere, "to make".
Weakened sensed of "very great, severe"; such as, "I have a terrific headache" appeared in 1809. The colloquial sense of "excellent" began about 1888.
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fac-, facil-, fact-, feas-, -feat, -fect, -feit, -facient, -faction, -fic-, -fy, -ficate, -fication
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