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adjective
- 1. causing or likely to cause horror; shocking: "a horrible massacre" Similar
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very shocking and frightening: a horrible crime. Synonyms. dreadful (FRIGHTENING) ghastly. horrendous. horrific. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of horrible from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of HORRIBLE is marked by or arousing painful and intense fear, dread, dismay, or aversion : marked by or arousing horror. How to use horrible in a sentence.
Horrible is popularly used to mean extremely bad—awful, dreadful, or horrendous. When it’s used to describe a person, it often means extremely disagreeable or cruel. Much less commonly, it can mean literally causing horror— horrifying or horrific.
If you say that someone or something is horrible, you mean that they are very unpleasant.
The difference between bad and horrible is like the difference between an unpleasant dream and an awful nightmare. Horrible means "causing horror," and goes back to the Latin word for “tremble” or “shudder.”. A horrible thing makes you shake with fear, like a story about an atrocious crime.
(informal) very bad or unpleasant; used to describe something that you do not like. What horrible weather! The coffee tasted absolutely horrible. a horrible mess/smell/noise. I've got a horrible feeling she lied to us. I feel horrible about what happened. He looks horrible with that new haircut.
Define horrible. horrible synonyms, horrible pronunciation, horrible translation, English dictionary definition of horrible. adj. 1. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: "War is beyond all words horrible" . 2. Very unpleasant; disagreeable. hor′ri·ble·ness n.
