Terrible and Very poor

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Terrible adjective - Causing fear.

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Very poor and terrible are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Very poor" instead an adjective "Terrible".

Nearby Words: terribly, terrify, terror

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Terrible and very poor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Terrible" instead an adjective phrase "Very poor".

You don't even have to be superstitiously inclined to see that reforging that hunk of metal was a terrible idea, and in very poor taste as well.

Source: Useful Notes / The Hindenburg
It is about a boy called Alfie who has really bad teeth (he has refused to go to the dentist after a terrible incident that happened to him years ago), who lives with his father in a very poor house.

Source: Literature / Demon Dentist

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Very poor and Terrible. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/terrible/very_poor

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