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  • 91shocking — Synonyms and related words: abhorrent, abominable, abrupt, absolute, amazing, appalling, arrant, astonishing, astounding, atrocious, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal,… …

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  • 92terrible — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, abominable, acute, alarming, appalling, arduous, arrant, ashamed, astounding, atrocious, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal,… …

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  • 93terrific — Synonyms and related words: ace, agitating, appalling, astounding, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, breathtaking, deadly, dire, direful, disquieting, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous,… …

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  • 94tremendous — Synonyms and related words: Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, appalling, astounding, astronomic, astronomical, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic …

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  • 95unlucky — Synonyms and related words: apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dark, depressed, dire, direful, disastrous, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil starred, fatal, fateful,… …

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  • 96dreadful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fearful, dire, frightful, shocking, horrible; awful, bad. See fear, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. terrible, appalling, fearful; see frightful 1 , offensive 2 , poor 2 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 97fateful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. momentous; prophetic; disastrous. See destiny, prediction, importance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Momentous] Syn. portentous, critical, decisive; see crucial , ominous . 2. [Fatal] Syn. destructive …

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  • 98fear — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Anticipation of misfortune Nouns 1. fear, fearfulness, phobia; timidity, timorousness, diffidence; solicitude, anxiety, worry, care, apprehension; apprehensiveness, misgiving, mistrust, doubt, suspicion …

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  • 99formidable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. appalling, tremendous; arduous, Herculean. See fear, difficulty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Inspiring fear or apprehension] Syn. fearful, forbidding, intimidating, impregnable; see dangerous 1 , 2 …

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  • 100ghastly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pale, haggard, deathly, ashen, livid; horrible, terrible, fearsome, hideous. See ugliness, colorlessness, fear.Ant., lovely, ruddy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Like a ghost] Syn. spectral, wan,… …

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