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فَظِيع
terrible /faˈðˤiːʕ/
adjectiveA2#1092 most common
Also: awful, dreadful, atrocious
Example sentences
هٰذا فَظِيع!
This is terrible!
الطَّقْسُ فَظِيعٌ اليَوْمَ.
The weather is terrible today.
كانَ الفيلْمُ فَظِيعًا، لَمْ يُعْجِبْني أَبَدًا.
The film was awful; I did not like it at all.
ارْتَكَبَ المُجْرِمُ عَمَلًا فَظِيعًا لا يُمْكِنُ نِسْيانُهُ.
The criminal committed a terrible act that cannot be forgotten.
وَصَفَتِ الصُّحُفُ الحادِثَ بِأَنَّهُ فَظِيعٌ بِكُلِّ المَقاييس.
The newspapers described the accident as atrocious by every measure.
ما إِنْ شاهَدَ المُحَقِّقونَ المَشْهَدَ الفَظيعَ حَتّى أَدْرَكوا أَنَّ ما جَرى يَفوقُ كُلَّ تَصَوُّر.
No sooner had the investigators seen the atrocious scene than they realized what had happened was beyond all imagination.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فَظِيعٌ | فَظِيعُونَ |
| Genitive | فَظِيعٍ | فَظِيعِينَ |
| Accusative | فَظِيعًا | فَظِيعِينَ |
| Vocative | يا فَظِيعُ | يا فَظِيعُونَ |
Word family
فَظَاعَةatrocity, dreadfulness
أَفْظَعmore/most terrible (elative)
فَظُعَto be terrible or atrocious
أَفْظَعَto commit something atrocious
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic triliteral root f-ẓ-ʿ, which carries the sense of something dreadful or repugnant. The verb faẓuʿa means to be terrible or atrocious. The adjective follows the faʿīl pattern, common for fixed stative qualities. The root is Semitic, so there is no Indo-European source.
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