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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. horriblenoun

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

2. horriblenoun

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

3. horribleadjective

   Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

4. horribleadjective

   Tremendously wrong or errant.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HORRIBLEadjective

   Dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; enormous.

   Etymology: horrible, French; horribilis, Lat.

   No colour affecteth the eye much with displeasure: there be sights that are horrible, because they excite the memory of things that are odious or fearful. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Eternal happiness and eternal misery, meeting with a persuasion that the soul is immortal, are, of all others, the first the most desireable, and the latter the most horrible to human apprehension. Robert South, Sermons.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Horrible

   Horrible is an EP by the rock group Half Japanese. It was released in 1982.

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1. horrible

   Horrible is an adjective that describes something causing or likely to cause horror; shocking, extremely unpleasant, or distressing. It's often used to denote extremely dislikeable or poor-quality conditions, events, or objects.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Horribleadjective

   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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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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. Lauren Utvich:

   Coca-Cola is so delicious, but it's like sun tanning or cigarettes — they're these wonderful things that we now know are horrible for us.

2. Katherine Raymond:

   It was difficult to determine a treatment plan because most people who have this cancer are geriatric and Fionah was just a baby, it is horrible to watch your baby go through chemo. Nothing prepares you for that. The radiation therapy leaves them with burns. She cried all the time. It was so hard on her.

3. Parker Rice:

   I am deeply sorry for what I did Saturday night. It was wrong and reckless, i made a horrible mistake by joining into the singing and encouraging others to do the same.

4. Greg Fischer:

   We had a horrible tragedy last night at 26th and Broadway, we lost a wonderful citizen named David McAtee.

5. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   I appreciate our friends in the media for really dispelling a horrible rumor that was circulating across the city that there was a serial killer and that he had dumped five bodies in dumpsters across the city, that was absolutely false, you knew it was false and we only ask that if you didn't hear it from the Detroit Police Department, it's probably not so.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=horrible
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Horrible
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=horrible
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrible
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horrible
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=horrible