Agonizing vs Terrible - What's the difference?
agonizing | terrible |
The act of one who agonizes.
* 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
Formidable, powerful.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 Unpleasant; disagreeable.
* , chapter=12
, title= Very bad; lousy.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 26, author=Tasha Robinson, work=The Onion AV Club
, title=
As adjectives the difference between agonizing and terrible
is that agonizing is causing agony while terrible is dreadful; causing alarm and fear.As a verb agonizing
is .As a noun agonizing
is the act of one who agonizes.agonizing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.
terrible
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- 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.
citation, passage=‘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?}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible , nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}
Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, passage=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.}}
