unterrific

English

From un- +‎ terrific.

unterrific (comparative more unterrific, superlative most unterrific)

Unterrifying; not causing or involving terror.
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 366:
  It was like the dark, cold, but unterrific and comparatively soothing night, that succeeds to a day of storm and earthquake.
Unexceptional, ordinary.
- 1887, John Ruskin, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts‎^[1], George Allen, pages 392–393:
  Of these the nearest — yet about twelve miles distant — is the before-named Brezon, a majestic, but unterrific, fortalice of cliff, forest, and meadow, with unseen nests of village, and unexpected balm and honey of garden and orchard nursed in its recesses.