fearful, dreadful
→
positive evaluation
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | terrific | |
| meaning 1 | awfull | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very good | the soil is terrific for potatoes |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | terrible | |
| meaning 1 | awful | une terrible catastrophe an awful catastrophe |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very good | Il est arrivé avec une fille terrible. He came with a terrific girl. |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | The second meaning is colloquial and most often occurs in negative phrases, cf. C'est pas terrible ! 'This is not great' | |