0 very unpleasant or serious or of low quality: --
1 very bad at doing something: --
3 very unpleasant or serious or bad: --
The terrible thing that happened to him, through no fault of his own, was that he did those things.
To highlight the terrible conditions at the plantations, he drew quite a harsh picture of women's life in the village home.
Traumatic events take place and their terrible effects may last a lifetime.
Moreover, although there is no doubt that witnessing the executions was a terrible thing, the powers of a witch may have been equally terrible.
We wanted an outcome that would be a true reflection of the terrible extent to which we were dispirited by the choices.
There is something terrible about seeing others go about life with rational deliberateness while we continue to bumble around.
Autonomy now appears a problem, in the context of the terrible organ shortage we face.
Of course, such experiments on animals also raise moral issues, especially in the absence of any justification based on curing terrible diseases.