Adjective

(en-adj)

Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.

Formidable, powerful.

* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

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.

Intense; extreme in degree or extent.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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Unpleasant; disagreeable.

* , chapter=12

, title= 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.}}

Very bad; lousy.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 26, author=Tasha Robinson, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= 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.}}

Adjective

(er)

(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.

* 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground'', '' , page 101,

It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.

* 2006 , , Nirvana: The True Story , 2009, unnumbered page,

The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.

* 2011 , Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires , page 134,

Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.

(British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.

Don't get shitty at me!

(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).