Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful.
- adjective Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing that causes
horror ; aterrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. - noun A person wearing a
comic orgrotesque costume in aparade of horribles . - adjective Causing
horror ;terrible ;shocking . - adjective
Tremendously wrong orerrant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective provoking horror
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Oh, let me tell thee allmore than this, something still more horrible, more horrible!
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Earlier Tuesday, Italy recalled its ambassador to Syria, citing what it called the "horrible repression of the civilian population."
UN Debates Resolution Condemning Syria As Unrest Continues 2011
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Earlier Tuesday, Italy recalled its ambassador to Syria, citing what it called the "horrible repression of the civilian population."
UN Debates Resolution Condemning Syria As Unrest Continues 2011
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ANDERSON: Marc ` s struggles began with what he describes as a horrible childhood.
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ANDERSON: Marc ` s struggles began with what we describes as a horrible childhood.
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ANDERSON: Marc ` s struggles began with what we describes as a horrible childhood.
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ANDERSON: Marc ` s struggles began with what we describes as a horrible childhood.
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The real irony is that right after having what they defined as a horrible experience with the blogs i.e., people were mean, the Post decides to embrace "the blogs" by nuzzling up to its worst elements, right-winger bloggers.
03/22/2006 2006
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McCourt, sitting beside his son, also said he feels it's unfair for the league to assert control over his property based on turmoil in his personal life, which he described as "horrible."
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The divorced dad has two young daughters and what he calls a horrible dating life, some of which will be shown to
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