unterrific
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unterrific (comparative more unterrific, superlative most unterrific)
- Unterrifying; not causing or involving terror.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 366:
- It was like the dark, cold, but unterrific and comparatively soothing night, that succeeds to a day of storm and earthquake.
- Unexceptional, ordinary.
- 1887, John Ruskin, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts[1], George Allen, pages 392–393:
- Of these the nearest — yet about twelve miles distant — is the before-named Brezon, a majestic, but unterrific, fortalice of cliff, forest, and meadow, with unseen nests of village, and unexpected balm and honey of garden and orchard nursed in its recesses.
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