horrible

Forms

1.A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- 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.
2.A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
- Tom said some horrible things about me.

1.Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.
2.Tremendously bad.
- 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.

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First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible

From Latin horribilis

From horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).