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What is the adjective for terrorise?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs terrify and terrorize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

terrible
  1. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
  2. Formidable, powerful.
  3. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
  4. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
  5. Very bad; lousy.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. dreadful, horrible, awful, horrifying, horrendous, shocking, appalling, ghastly, atrocious, gruesome, horrific, monstrous, dire, hideous, abhorrent, desperate, dread, serious, terrifying, abominable, hateful, unspeakable, grave, grim, heinous, horrid, vile, alarming, direful, dismal, distressing, dreaded, egregious, execrable, frightening, grievous, harrowing, insufferable, lousy, severe, sickening, wretched, bad, fearsome, forbidding, grisly, lamentable, lurid, macabre, redoubtable … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Edward is suspected of having committed terrible crimes against vulnerable individuals.”
      “The beef was well past its use-by date and tasted terrible.”
      “They have just released a terrible movie that will probably be a flop.”
terrific
  1. (colloquial) Frighteningly good.
  2. (colloquial) Astounding or awesome.
  3. (dated) Terrifying; causing terror.
  4. Frightful or very unpleasant.
  5. (colloquial) Extraordinarily great or intense.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. excellent, wonderful, great, marvellous, fantastic, superb, amazing, fine, glorious, grand, magnificent, phenomenal, awesome, incredible, splendid, stellar, perfect, sublime, fabulous, sensational, brilliant, delightful, fantabulous, marvelous, outstanding, remarkable, top, cool, cracking, divine, smashing, super, topping, tremendous, heavenly, radical, sterling, superlative, beautiful, choice, dandy, fab, lovely, neat, nifty, peachy, quality, rad, stupendous, supernal … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “I have made some terrific friends during my career.”
      “There was a terrific demand for the bins, and we had to queue for over an hour to get ours.”
      “His body presented a terrific emblem of death.”
terrifying
  1. Frightening or intimidating.
  2. Of a formidable nature; terrific
  3. Synonyms:
      4. frightening, scary, petrifying, chilling, horrifying, alarming, appalling, daunting, formidable, fearsome, unnerving, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, forbidding, frightful, ghastly, horrendous, horrible, intimidating, redoubtable, shocking, terrible, menacing, startling, worrying, distressing, disturbing, horrid, awful, baleful, dangerous, grim, hideous, hair-raising, spine-chilling, horrific, gruesome, macabre, monstrous, grisly, nightmarish, eerie, spooky, lurid, creepy, sinister, unspeakable … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Trapped in a hot, heaving crowd, I suffer the most terrifying claustrophobia of my life.”
terrifical
  1. Archaic form of terrific. (inspiring terror)
  2. (dialect) terrific (superb; wonderful)
terroristic
  1. Of or pertaining to a terrorist, terrorism, or terror.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Those that understand that we are at war with terroristic purveyors of medieval viciousness know that we cannot reason with our adversaries.”
      “It was the open terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, chauvinist, and imperialist elements of German finance capital.”
      “Many actually planned and encouraged terroristic crimes so as to disarm suspicion and, in some cases, help their careers.”
terrorless
  1. Not causing terror; unfrightening.
terrorstruck
  1. Stricken with terror; utterly terrified.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. terrorstricken
  3. Examples:
      4. “Upon hearing the bone-chilling screams in the darkness, the children were terrorstruck and clung to each other in fear.”
terrorstricken
  1. Stricken with terror; utterly terrified.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. terrorstruck
  3. Examples:
      4. “She stood there, terrorstricken, as the roaring waves crashed against the fragile pier.”
terrorist
  1. Of or relating to terrorism.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. antigovernment, rebel, revolutionary, insurgent, subversive, guerrilla, mutinous, rebellious, dissident, anarchic, insurrectionary, disloyal, seditious, anarchist, traitorous, insurrectionist, renegade, resistance, underground, anarchical, riotous, anarchistic, mutinying, conspiratorial, agitating, insurrectional, mutineering, breakaway, rebelling, malcontent, opposition, radical, resistive, revolting, paramilitary, rioting, insubordinate, contumacious, factious, disobedient, disorderly, inflammatory, agitational, lawless, extremist, out of control, rabble-rousing, treasonable, criminal, unlawful … more
terroristical
  1. Of or relating to terrorists
terrifick
  1. Obsolete form of terrific.
terrified
  1. Extremely frightened.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightened, alarmed, scared, horrified, afraid, fearful, shocked, aghast, petrified, spooked, hysterical, terrorised, terrorized, affrighted, intimidated, frozen, hysteric, frantic, scary, feart, frit, funky, windy, afeared, awed, horror-struck, terror-stricken, scared stiff, terror-struck, horror-stricken, panic-stricken, scared to death, scared witless, frightened to death, beside oneself, in a cold sweat, in a funk, in a blue funk, shaking like a leaf, frightened out of your wits, bricking oneself, paralyzed with fear, paralysed with fear, panicky, unnerved, startled, nervous, anxious, jumpy, jittery … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The Skraelings were terrified at the sight and fled back to their boats and hastened away.”
terrorful
  1. Full of terror.
terribler
  1. (rare) comparative form of terrible: more terrible
  2. Synonyms:
      3. horribler, awfuller, ghastlier, gruesomer, direr, dreader, seriouser, hatefuller, graver, grimmer, horrider, viler, lousier, severer, wretcheder, badder, grislier, rottener, viciouser, extremer, punker, scarier, more dreadful, more horrifying, more horrendous, more appalling, more atrocious, more horrific, more monstrous, more hideous, more abhorrent, more desperate, more terrifying, more abominable, more unspeakable, more heinous, more alarming, more direful, more dismal, more distressing, more dreaded, more egregious, more execrable, more frightening, more grievous, more harrowing, more insufferable, more sickening, more fearsome, more forbidding … more
terrorized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of terrorize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scared, frightened, panicked, terrified, petrified, startled, alarmed, shocked, horrified, intimidated, daunted, unnerved, scarified, affrighted, dismayed, frighted, spooked, filled with fear, gave someone the heebie-jeebies, made nervous, put the wind up, scared stiff, scared the pants off, scared to death, struck terror into, appalled, terrorised, alarumed, upset, scared the bejesus out of, agitated, put the fear of God into, cowed, perturbed, disconcerted, awed, disturbed, scared the living daylights out of, disquieted, discouraged, deterred, chilled, made one's hair stand on end, flustered, rattled, fazed, discomforted, scared someone out of their wits, put off, made one's blood run cold … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I realized that, as an extremely frightened and terrorized child, I had used anger as a means of motivating myself to get out of bed most mornings.”
terrorizing
  1. present participle of terrorize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightening, scaring, terrifying, alarming, intimidating, startling, panicking, shocking, horrifying, spooking, affrighting, cowing, petrifying, frighting, awing, aweing, alaruming, scarifying, upsetting, appalling, tormenting, scaring to death, striking terror into, scaring the bejesus out of, filling with terror, striking terror in, putting the fear of God into, inspiring panic in, frightening out of your wits, daunting, unnerving, agitating, perturbing, dismaying, putting the wind up, disturbing, disconcerting, disquieting, scaring stiff, chillin, chilling, scaring the living daylights out of, discouraging, discomforting, fazing, deterring, making one's hair stand on end, flustering, rattling, shaking … more
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