What does it mean? Does it mean a bad evil purpose? Or a formidable and critical one? Or could be both? I'm a bit confused here cuz I think it should be a widely used expression.
2006-10-09 03:03:43 · 2 answers · asked by Mahyar 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Although the languages that have Latin as its root would use a word related to purpose commonly, in American we use more often the word 'intent', and sometimes 'intents and purposes'. If by 'terrible' is meant something dark and evil, we use the word 'evil' more often in this context... so we would say, more probably 'evil intention', or 'malicious' which means the same thing. The word 'terrible' here no longer means horrible so much as to really mess something up - I sang terribly last Sunday. His pizza was terrible. To mean something more related to the word 'terror' we have been using something like the word 'horrific' or 'horrible' more, like the 'horror films'.
The use of the words related to 'terror' may come back though as we continue to deal with 'terrorists' who really do have terrible intentions.
2006-10-10 09:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by mary_n_the_lamb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess it implies bad or evil purpose, and yes it should be widely used expression as we have lots and lots of things that can describe it well.
2006-10-11 05:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋