Definitions
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- adjective
Unterrifying ; not causing or involvingterror . - adjective
Unexceptional ,ordinary .
Etymologies
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un- + terrific
Examples
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Odd that a terrific piece of software has unterrific help database.
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Odd that a terrific piece of software has unterrific help database.
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Burney described the drive as "the most beautiful to which my wandering feet have sent me; diversified with all that can compose luxuriant scenery, and with just as much approach to the sublime as is in the province of unterrific beauty."
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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We looked-out on Life, with its strange scaffolding, where all at once harlequins dance, and men are beheaded and quartered: motley, not unterrific was the aspect; but we looked on it like brave youths.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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