Anonymous ID: 933f5e June 17, 2019, 8:17 a.m. No.6771185   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6771105

 

Terrible and terrific are both formed off the same root: terror. Both started out a few hundred years ago with the meaning of terror-inducing. But terrific took a strange turn at the beginning of the 20th century and ended up meaning really great, not terrible or terror-inducing at all.

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56865/why-does-terrible-mean-bad-and-terrific-mean-good