Horrible

Quick meaning: Horrible is a noun meaning A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

Meaning

A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

More Meanings

1. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
2. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
3. Tremendously bad.

Example Sentences

Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.

Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

Word Forms

• horribles
• horribler
• horriblest

Synonyms for horrible

Depending on context, synonyms include frightening, bad, atrocious, alarming, frightful, ugly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include horrifying, atrocious, alarming, frightful, ugly, horrific.

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