why are terrible and horrible basically the same thing but horrific and terrific are basically the opposite

Question

English will never be something I fully understand

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Answer 1

Words like this evolve so often there’s a word for them: Contranyms – they are a word that through usage become their own antonyms.

The fact that the English speaking world is such a bunch of sarcastic assholes that we have a name for this is something that makes me laugh.