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

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  1. Horrible

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

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Horrible

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

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

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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. Ivan Jimenez:

    It's really horrible for people, above all, our concern is for mental health.

  2. Bernie Sanders:

    It is something -- I got to tell you, I never expected in my life, as an American, to see a swastika at a major political rally. It's horrible.

  3. Donald Trump:

    So after a long look, after a long investigation, after so many people have been so badly hurt, after not looking at the other side, where a lot of bad things happened, a lot of horrible things happened, a lot of bad things happened for our country, it was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

  4. Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton:

    This will take some time to work through, this is just a horrible incident.

  5. Barb Fletcher:

    It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless.

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