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Someone described climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge as "すごく怖". Is that
supposed to mean cool, awesome (in the modern day positive meaning), and
great, or does it mean terrifying?

Weblio doesn't have a dictionary definition, but the [corpus examples
given](http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%99%E3%81%94%E3%81%8F%E6%80%96)
seem to suggest it means terrifying.

The main reason I'm wanting to check is that すごい itself used to mean terrible,
but now means amazing.
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Is すごく怖 bad, or good?
怖い basically just means terrifying/terrified. すごい/すごく here works as an
intensifier (="very", "really"). Climbing a bridge is indeed a terrifying
thing, and the expression doesn't contain any hidden meanings.

In very limited contexts 怖い might be used to refer to something really
extraordinary and awesome (e.g., a godlike FPS game player may be sometimes
described as [こわちか](http://netyougo.com/yg/11326.html)), but it's fairly
slangy.
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