terribleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈtɛɹəbl̩/, /ˈtɛɹɪbl̩/
• (米国発音, dialectal, archaic) IPA: /ˈtɝbəl/, /ˈtɛɚbəl/
• Homophone: tearable (with /ə/ and merry-Mary merger)

形容詞

terrible (comparative terribler or more terrible, superlative terriblest or 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:

     […] 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 Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, 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.

   He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘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?

4. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.

   The food was terrible, but it was free.

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

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

5. Very bad; lousy.

   Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver.

   • 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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:frightening

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “very bad”): excellent

派生語

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “terrible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• treblier

語源

Old French terrible.

形容詞

terrible

1. terrible
2. unendurable

派生語

派生した語

• English: terrible

参照

• “terrible, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.