If you describe something or someone as terrific, you are very pleased with them or very impressed by them.
Is terrific positive or negative?
Today, we still use "terrific" in this negative, terrifying sense, as when we speak of a "terrific explosion." But during the 20th century, "terrific" took on an additional, more positive meaning: "unusually fine, magnificent, splendid."
What is the best synonym for terrific?
terrific
- tremendous, huge, massive, gigantic, colossal, mighty, great, very great, very big, prodigious, formidable, sizeable, considerable.
- intense, extreme, extraordinary, excessive, inordinate.
- informal mega, whopping, whopping great, humongous.
- British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous.
