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Terrifically

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ter·rif·ic  (t-rfk)
adj.
1. Very good or fine; splendid: a terrific tennis player.
2. Awesome; astounding: drove at a terrific rate of speed.
3. Causing terror or great fear; terrifying: a terrific wail.
4. Very bad or unpleasant; frightful: a terrific headache.
[Latin terrificus : terrre, to frighten + -ficus, -fic.]
ter·rifi·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.Terrificallyterrifically - (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
marvellously, marvelously, superbly, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously
intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"


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If in the front and the key-truck of chaos, he entered terrifically into the quarrel that was raging to and fro among the drivers on their high seats, and sometimes roared oaths and violently got himself arrested.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context
Wopsle finished off with a most terrifically snarling passage from Richard the Third, and seemed to think he had done quite enough to account for it when he added, - "as the poet says.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
An Englishman performs some terrifically heroic exploit, and is very modest and reserved--refuses to talk about it at all--and the effect is that by his silence he as much as says, 'I do things like this every day.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
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