Horrible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: "War is beyond all words horrible” ( Winston S. Churchill).
  • adj. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
  • n. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
  • adj. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  • adj. Tremendously wrong or errant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible: as, a horrible sight; horrible cruelty; a horrible story.
  • Hideous; shocking; extremely repulsive: as, horrible deformity; a horrible smell.
  • Synonyms Execrable, Abominable, etc. (see nefarious); frightful, fearful, horrid, awful, revolting.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. provoking horror
  • Equivalent
    alarming   
    Cross Reference
    wicked    outrageous    monstrous    abominable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    horrid    frightful    hideous    shocking    terrible    terrific    fearful    awful    dreadful    frightening   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adorable    deplorable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terrible    horrid    ghastly    monstrous    extraordinary    miserable