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horrible

[hawr-uh-buhl, hor-]

adjective

causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.

extremely unpleasant; deplorable; disgusting: horrible living conditions.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English (h)orrible < Old French < Latin horribilis, equivalent to horr- (stem of horrēre to stand on end, bristle with fear) + -ibilis -ible

Related forms

hor·ri·ble·ness, noun

hor·ri·bly, adverb

Synonyms
1. terrible, awful, appalling, frightful; hideous, grim, ghastly, shocking, revolting, repulsive, horrid, horrendous, horrifying, repellent.

Antonyms
1. attractive.

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Years of covering up horrible acts are unraveling in front of our eyes.

Transport is turning into a horrible political problem for the government.

It's about time someone has the guts to shed light on these horrible practices people employ for profit.

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Years of covering up horrible acts are unraveling in front of our eyes.

Transport is turning into a horrible political problem for the government.

It's about time someone has the guts to shed light on these horrible practices people employ for profit.

If there wasn't texting, i'm sure people would still be horrible spellers anyways.

It was a grueling journey through horrible heat and humidity.

American foul brood is an awful, horrible bacterial disease that infects bee larvae, and kills them in their cells.

Ours are usually one day marathons at a horrible back windowless room in a restaurant.

People don't seem to realise how horrible this will be.

Most smell horrible and make the fabric look darker than they are.

She had a horrible headache, and she was burning with fever.

The recent comic books have me convinced that it's a horrible idea.

Our home used to be a pinkish-taupe, which was a horrible background for yellow- or chartreuse-leaved plants.

He declined the offer for three reasons: abysmal pay, horrible health insurance, and the campus culture.

But what a horrible experience it might nearly have been.

Like how bad it must have been coming off the drugs she was addicted to while dealing with the horrible jail conditions.

Often those animal lives are lived in horrible factory farms, only to die in slaughterhouses.

People who are not sick sometimes do horrible things.

When that happened the village experienced a horrible period of drought.

Not every story about endangered species is horrible.

They need a lot of hand holding, but if you're that kind of instructor, it's not horrible.

It's also horrible that poacher's only do it for the money.

Even with your horrible grammar you post is still ridiculous.

Afghanistan found itself caught up in a chronology of horrible behavior, from within and without.

It's a horrible thought: plastic bags everywhere, people screaming.

Taking that extra time changed the whole expedition from a horrible failure to a huge success.

LeaderofMen, and others i think in a sci-fi movie, it'd be a horrible idea.

Put these horrible people in jail for the rest of their lives.

As the strain developed resistance, there was a horrible need for new drugs, and this drug met it.

People still enjoy the cherry blossom in the park, even after the horrible earth quack.

Horrible health problems were pandemic, due to diet and hygiene.

Jake is an everyday guy and this shows how easily anyone could get into a horrible unintended situation.

Unfortunately, it was buggy and horrible at both tasks.

Some of the camps have hundreds of thousand people in horrible living conditions.

Climate change is going to do all sorts of horrible things.

It burns your eyes and puts a horrible sour taste in your throat, not to mention it's a health hazard.

He spent much of that year living in real fear for his life, with horrible living conditions to top it off.

They gobble up road kill and can hurl the ingested remains at a potential attacker, leaving a horrible odor.

Malaria is the horrible killer it is because of environmentalism.

They were herding yaks loaded down with bloody animal hides, which filled the whole place with a horrible stench.

All this white seems unwise, a potentially horrible canvas.

Fortunately, nothing so horrible has darkened the forest recently.

Horrible symptoms include fever, internal bleeding and liver failure.

Prisons often engendered conditions more horrible than those on the battlefield.

People thought the city was horrible and things would only get worse.

And even then you may want to hold off this free app, thanks to its horrible design.

We have to contend with a horrible enemy that is difficult to kill and persistent in it's mission.

How horrible that these beautiful gorillas or any animal should be slaughtered.

I've watched domestic animals die from strychnine poisoning and it's a horrible thing to witness.

If nothing else, this project makes me appreciate my horrible cellphone all over again.

It's incredibly disrespectful to the thousands of women who die from this horrible disease every year.

No human mind could come up with something as horrible as jar jar binks.

It's horrible to see that happen though, especially from a teacher's prospective.

Lee's office with horrible infections are less preoccupied with the mundane consequences of thick toes and.

For example, he is stabbed three times during the course of his journey by disgusting and horrible creatures.

It was a horrible review, if you don't read between the lines.

How horrible to miss the interesting and important comments of the narrator.

There is a strange hysteria around the horrible idea that our little ones may ever be exposed to anything even slightly dangerous.

He is still mean, and still says horrible things to me, and forces me to defend myself and my mother and my life.

Faced with a horrible choice, the submariners sacrificed themselves to do their duty and repair the cooling system.

But this kid showed up at my office in tears, and it was horrible.

His life in his dad's small cabin was horrible so he cuts a hole in the cabin to escape.

The process is not as horrible as you make it out to be.

He is a nice, bright student, but had a horrible social skill.

Smokers have been adequately informed that they are risking horrible illness and death by smoking.

The only way to get these horrible substances off our streets is to put them in our pharmacies.

Hundreds of thousands of elephants died horrible deaths.

Virtually all sea slugs taste horrible to predators-that's why they don't need protective shells.

Many of the people that are left behind predict horrible consequences for society as a whole.

Fertilizers have a horrible habit of leaching into waterways.

It's amazing to see people living in horrible conditions however they where laughing, and seemed full of joy.

They are glad because of the horrible reputation that sharks have been given by scared humans.

He was absolutely livid, and suggested something absolutely horrible would happen to me if it ever did it again.

It was horrible and humiliating the tents alone were a different story too.

Taking prescribed anti-rejection drugs for life sounds horrible.

Let's hope this horrible event never repeats itself anywhere on the planet….

The real life conditions in russia and in prisons especially incredibly and extremely horrible.

And the news is usually broadcasting horrible things, which makes the world look worse than it is.

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World English Dictionary

horrible (ˈhɒrəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	causing horror; dreadful
2.	disagreeable; unpleasant
3.	informal cruel or unkind

[C14: via Old French from Latin horribilis, from horrēre to tremble]

'horribleness

—n

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Word Origin & History

horrible

c.1300, from O.Fr. horrible, from L. horribilis, from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror).

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