Definitions for horrible
ˈhɔr ə bəl, ˈhɒr-hor·ri·ble

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly(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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. horrible(Noun)

   A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

2. horrible(Noun)

   A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

3. horrible(Adjective)

   Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

4. horrible(Adjective)

   Tremendously wrong or errant.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Horrible(adj)

   exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Horrible

   hor′i-bl, adj. causing or tending to cause horror: dreadful: awful: terrific.—n. Horr′ibleness.—adv. Horr′ibly. [L. horribilis—horrēre.]

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'horrible' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1274

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'horrible' in Adjectives Frequency: #703

How to pronounce horrible?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of horrible in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of horrible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of horrible in a Sentence

1. Gary Wilson:

   It was a horrible thing... the whole bush has been burnt. It's been vaporized - it's Vietnam is what it looks like.

2. Andy Murray:

   Kim told me she had read an article where it was sort of blaming our child for me losing a match. That’s actually a horrible thing to say, that’s not the case, but so what if she did? Why does that matter?

3. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

4. Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

   Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.

5. Michael Guttentag:

   There is this horrible mismatch between what companies know about their own businesses and what they tell investors in mandatory public filings. That isn't okay.

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