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Adjective: terrific  tu'ri-fik
  1. Very great or intense
    "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"
     
  2. Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as an intensifier
    "a terrific trip to the Orient"
    - fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous [US], marvellous [Brit, Cdn], rattling, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous, magnificent
     
  3. [archaic] Causing extreme terror
    "a terrific wail"
    - terrifying

See also: alarming, extraordinary, intense, terrifically

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