Deserving of or giving rise to condemnation or regret; deplorable, lamentable; very bad; (in weakened sense) terrible, awful.

Of pain, grief, fear, or the like: such as might cause death; deadly in its effects. Often in hyperbolical and humorous use.

colloquial. As an intensifier: complete, utter, out-and-out.

Intellectually subtle; clever, ingenious. Often in negative sense: cunning, crafty. Obsolete.

In ironical use: cf. ‘fine’, ‘nice’, ‘pretty’, in similar use. Obsolete.

Noble; beautiful; excellent, fine. ironically. Scottish in later use.

As an intensifier: outrageous, arrant; flagrant.

Chiefly colloquial. Contemptible, worthless, poor. Also as an intensifier (also as adv.). Cf. lousy, adj. 2, mangy, adj. 3, poxy, adj.

In weakened sense: very unpleasant or distasteful; dreadful, terrible.

Applied to bad or annoying things in intensive sense. Cf. awful, adj. 1a, terrible, adj. 2, dreadful, adj. 3, etc.

ironic. Of a punishment, reproof, etc. (esp. a beating): severe, unsparing; ‘fine’.

In weakened use: troublesome, annoying, vexatious, tiresome, disagreeable; (colloquial, as an intensifier) confounded, cursed, damnable, excessive…

In weakened sense, applied to objects exciting fear or aversion. In modern colloquial use often a strong intensive = Exceedingly bad, great…

Terrible, dreadful; remarkable or notable.

Disagreeable, foul, contemptible; = plaguey, adj. 1b. Obsolete.

colloquial (chiefly British). Awful, disgraceful, atrocious.

Plaguy, confounded; ‘devilish’; expressing impatient dislike, or as a mere emphatic expletive.

In weakened (now trivial) use, apparent first in dire necessity: terrible, dreadful; awful, ‘frightful’; unpleasant, objectionable. colloquial.

Highly reprehensible. Also, as a strong intensive: excessive in manner or extent; ‘dreadful’, ‘wicked’. colloquial.

Used as an intensifier. Later also as a simple filler, with little or no intensifying force (although generally implying some element of dislike…

slang. Full-blown; often euphemistic for bloody, adj. 8 or the like. Cf. blessed, adj. 5.

Burning hot, inflamed, fiery.

colloquial (chiefly British and Australian). As an intensifier, originally as a euphemism for bloody (see bloody, adj. 8): damned, blasted.

figurative. Of an exceptionally poor standard or quality; extremely bad, appalling.

Of very poor quality; very bad; rubbish, terrible.

As an intensifier: terrible, hellish.

colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English). As an intensifier (usually in derogatory and ironical contexts): complete, absolute, total…

Used as a substitute for a strong expletive: consummate, ‘blithering’. slang.

Bad; low quality; dreadful.