horrible

UK /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/ US /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/
noun 2adj 2

Definitions

noun

1

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!

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.

adj

1

Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

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

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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