Teterrimous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Teterrimous is an adjective meaning (rare) Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
Meaning
(rare) Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
Example Sentences
Captain Magan, the teterrimous occasion of the wars of the week, enters battle in a red shirt!
On the very edge of sight the teterrimous mountains, huge, made of brass, scaling the dark heavens, rimmed with blue flames.
Halliford Bridge was washed away some years ago by the floods; and now the Surrey and Middlesex shores are connected by a brick and iron structure which is named Walton Bridge, and which, being the teterrimous cause of war between Bumbledon on both sides the river, was painted of two colours, a chromatic difference that greatly increased the normal ugliness of the design.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include horridsome, vile, affreux, foul, fearful, monstrous.
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