October vs Terrible - What's the difference?
october | terrible |
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct
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 october and terrible
is that october is of october while terrible is dreadful; causing alarm and fear.october
English
Alternative forms
* Octobre (obsolete)Proper noun
(Octobers)Derived terms
* mid-October * October beer * October-bird * October effect * Octoberfest * Octoberist, Octobrist * October Revolution * October surprise * (October War) * Red OctoberSee also
* ----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.}}