Sekirov Dictionary

horrible

UK /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/US /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 5

adjective2

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Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him. — 1949
•
extremely bad, and not at all nice
- Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie. — 2010

noun2

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A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles! — 1851
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

forms

horribles · horribler · more horrible · horriblest · most horrible

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