Meaning of HORRIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'horubul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" |
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| | Synonyms: | | alarming, atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hor"ri*ble\, a. [OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible,
orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See
{Horror}.]
Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful;
terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible
story; a horrible murder.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round. --Milton.
Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific;
shocking; hideous; horrid.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deadly, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disagreeable, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fearful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rousing, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, squalid, terrible, terrific, terrifying, thumping, too bad, tragic, tremendous, unclean, unpleasant, unspeakable, vile, villainous, whacking, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched |
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