![]() In grammar, a noun adjunct or attributive noun or noun (pre)modifier is an optional noun that modifies another noun it is a noun functioning as a pre-modifier in a noun phrase. While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. Wynn: "pleasure, delight," from Proto-Germanic andįollowing is the excerpt from wiki article : If I am not wrong then digging Etymology online dictionary for Wyn, Horrific, Terrific etc., I came to know that Urban dictionary describes Wynorrific as, "Something being both beautiful and terrible at the same time." "A picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website."īut it was only introduce in Oxford Dictionary by 2013. On the other side, this word can be used frequently and made accepted just like the word 'Selfie'.įor an example the word selfie was defined in Urban dictionary in 2009, July 29 by SaRAWRR as Language pedantic may be reluctant to use it.You can't use it in test or examination because of point (1).Urban dictionary is maintained by Amateur.It is newly coined word (probably by amateur), hence you can't get any reference in any.But there is a risk or downside using this word: While surfing the internet I came across this beautiful word described on Urban dictionary. So, just like awesome and formidable, terrific doesn't comprise any element of beauty in it. 1888: inverted colloquial sense of "excellent" (Related: Terrifically).1809: Weakened sensed of "very great, severe" (as in terrific headache) appeared.1660s: frightening, from Latin terrificus "causing terror or fear, frightful.History of the word 'Terrific' and its usage: TERRIFIC (Adj.): The Merriam Webster describes it asĮxtremely good, unusually fine : magnificent, extraordinary, or exciting or fit to excite fear or awe The commonness between Awesome and Formidable is that they inspire fear and the delineating difference between them is that Awesome inspires fear out of reverential profoundness, and Formidable inspires fear out of being large in size. It also gives us, sense of something large and inspiring fear. Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable. Etymologically, it talks more about dread and respect at the same time.Īn other word is Formidable. More and more it is used to describe something impressively good.Īlso, simply the word 'awesome' doesn't fully qualify or carry the sense of something both beautiful and terrible at the same time. With etymological chronology we have seen that the word 'awesome' is losing the sense of being 'awe' after 1961. Beauty is something charming or seductive or attractive. We always like to say, Unicorn is beautiful, butterfly is beautiful, or a beautiful lady. Though, beauty (beautiful) is a relative word. For the character King Kong in the movie, I would certainly use the word awesome because it describes the sense that king kong is both profound and impressive, it is awesome, but it is not beautiful. Here, we don't get the sense of 'beauty'.Į.g. When we dig down the history of the word then it describes the idea "You respect something because it is profound or impressive". 1980: (became vogue) sense of "impressive, very good". ![]() 1961: (recorded) weakened colloquial sense of "impressive, very good". ![]() 1590s: profoundly reverential, from awe (n.) + -some."A place of awesome beauty " or "the awesome power of the atomic bomb".īut informally it is now used as: extremely good, excellent, terrific, extraordinary. The Merriam Webster describes it asĪwesome: inspiring awe. The most common choice is 'Awesome' or ''awe-inspiring. ![]() Now, I am presenting you my terrific voyage on this beautiful question.įew adjectives that qualify, but not sufficiently confine the entire sense of "something being both beautiful and terrible at the same time" are listed below with their etymological derivations.Īt the end of the description, I have a surprise for you or to say probable answer! I had a same curiosity few days back and I did spent some quality time searching for the answer. ![]() I think they hardly describes the concoction of the sense: something both beautiful and terrible at the same time. I am inspired to write the eloborated answer because I faintly disagree with the word 'awesome' (or terrific, or formidable). ![]()
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