horrible

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UK /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/ US /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/

noun 2adj 2

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste

ADV

bloody

The weather was bloody horrible yesterday, so we stayed inside all day.

really

The food at that restaurant was really horrible, so we never went back.

absolutely, perfectly, quite, truly

The weather last weekend was absolutely horrible, so we stayed inside and watched movies.

pretty, rather

The weather last weekend was rather horrible, so we stayed indoors and watched films.

PREP

The coach was horrible to the new players during their first practice session.

Definitions

noun

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.

A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

adj

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.

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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Synonyms

adjective — provoking horror

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Idioms & Phrases

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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!

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

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

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

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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.

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