terroristic

adjective

ter·​ror·​is·​tic ˌter-ər-ˈi-stik 

: involving or employing violent acts of terror : marked by terrorism

terroristic threats

accused of conspiring to carry out terroristic acts

resorting to terroristic tactics

terroristic organizations/regimes

He demonstrates how, in applying their openly terroristic concept of warfare, the officer corps, and not just the SS, promoted mentalities and practices that prepared the ground for the mass liquidations.

—V. R. Berghahn

Examples of terroristic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lang accused of threatening to kill Karmelo Anthony He's been ordered to leave the state except for court dates after his arrest for making a terroristic threat. — J.d. Miles, CBS News, 23 June 2026

Alite faces multiple counts of extortion, corporate misconduct, loansharking and terroristic threats. — ABC News, 22 June 2026

Councilman John Alite, 63, of Englishtown, was arrested on Friday and charged with multiple counts of theft by extortion, corporate misconduct, usury and terroristic threats, according to the New Jersey Attorney General's office. — Ronn Blitzer , Tessa Hoyos, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026

He was charged with two counts of torture of a dog or cat, two counts of second-degree cruelty to animals, one count of menacing and one count of third-degree terroristic threatening, per online jail records reviewed by PEOPLE. — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for terroristic

• agonistic
• altruistic
• animistic
• aphoristic
• atheistic
• atomistic
• cabalistic
• calvinistic
• chauvinistic
• dualistic
• egoistic
• egotistic