Terrific vs Baleful - What's the difference?
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(colloquial) Frighteningly good.
(colloquial) Astounding or awesome.
Terrifying; causing terror
Frightful or very unpleasant.
(colloquial) Extraordinarily great or intense.
Portending evil; ominous.
* 1674 -- John Milton: )
* 1873 ,
Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
Terrific is a related term of baleful.
As adjectives the difference between terrific and baleful
is that terrific is (colloquial) frighteningly good while baleful is portending evil; ominous.terrific
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Alternative forms
* terrifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I say! She's a terrific tennis player.
- The car came round the bend at a terrific speed.
- The lightning was followed by a terrific clap of thunder.
- I've got a terrific hangover this morning.
- terrific speed
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* English terms derived from Latinbaleful
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Alternative forms
* balefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
- Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
- Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.