TERRIBLENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A quality of extreme unpleasantness

Synonyms:

awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("terribleness" is a kind of...):

unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terribleness"):

frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)

Derivation:

terrible (causing fear or dread or terror)

terrible (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

terrible (intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality)

terrible (extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact)