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horrible

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Causing horror; terrible; shocking. n. 1 A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 2 A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a horrible/nasty/horrific accident ▪ We narrowly avoided a nasty accident. ▪ ‘This was an absolutely horrific accident,’ said an ambulance spokesman. a nasty/horrible bug ▪ It was a really nasty bug. a terrible/horrible/grim ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French horrible , orrible (12c.) "horrible, repugnant, terrifying," from Latin horribilis "terrible, fearful, dreadful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror ). Used as a mere intensifier from mid-15c.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Horrible is an EP by the rock group Half Japanese .

Usage examples of horrible.

And I would have you note that the horrible creature gives you a piece of advice you would do well to follow.

Rock and ice climbing, free diving to spear those horrible jellyfish creatures, sailing and skiing, and bareback riding on their herbivores.

No, Bedlam, I think these are his unliving servants, as horrible in their own way as those things moving south.

Their faculties were benumbed by the sharp shock of contact with his horrible pain.

Imogen, and giggled at the googly-eyed look of utter besottedness on her face, even though I had a horrible suspicion I wore the very same expression.

Suspended by such a hair of frailty, for one breathless moment, on such a razor edged contingence, an entrancing sea of blessedness above, a horrible abyss of torture beneath, such should be the all concentrating anxiety to secure safety that there would be neither time nor taste for any thing else.

Both were yelling, brandishing weapons, and looking behind them as though something invisible, but horrible, was chasing them.

On the contrary, there are reasons which compel belief that, in many instances, these vivisections implied the most horrible and prolonged torments that the practice of animal experimentation has ever been permitted to evoke.

As for Marl, Khiindi thought for a moment that perhaps he was a shapeshifter who was really at least partly descended from the Khleevi, the horrible buglike race that had had no purpose except to waste, destroy, and eat the rest of the universe.

Those horrible grahzny bratchnies in that terrible white mesto had done that to me, making me need help and kindness now and forcing me to want to give help and kindness myself, if anybody would take it.

What horrible punishments were meted out to women for insolence in this century?

Being polite and showing respect for the misbehaving user is a good policy - even when a horrible snert shows none of this in return.

The creature moved swiftly along, keeping pace easily with the monoplane, and for twenty miles or more it formed my horrible escort, hovering over me like a bird of prey which is waiting to pounce.

England, then it would seem that he had fled from it at the full speed of his monoplane, but had been overtaken and devoured by these horrible creatures at some spot in the outer atmosphere above the place where the grim relics were found.

If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.