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horrible

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hor·ri·ble  (hôr-bl, hr-)
adj.
1. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: "War is beyond all words horrible" Winston S. Churchill.
2. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin horribilis, from horrre, to tremble.]

horri·ble·ness n.
horri·bly adv.

horrible
Adjective
1. disagreeable and unpleasant: a horrible hotel room
2. causing fear, shock, or disgust: he died a horrible death [Latin horribilis]
horribly adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.horriblehorrible - provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

horrible
adjective 1. (Informal) dreadful, terrible, awful, nasty, cruel, beastly (informal) mean, unpleasant, ghastly (informal) unkind, horrid, disagreeable << OPPOSITE wonderful
Translations
Spanish horrible [ˈhɔrɪbl] adjhorrible
French horrible [ˈhɔrɪbl] adjhorrible, affreux/euse
German horrible [ˈhɔrɪbl] adjfürchterlich, schrecklich;
(scream, dream) → furchtbar

Italian horrible [ˈhɔrɪbl] adjorribile, tremendo/a

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The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart: -- ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing!
"An appeal will not lie," he thought, with an absurd reversion to professional slang, making the situation more horrible, as the fire of a cigar might light up a tomb.
gunboat "Myrtle," and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible "Medusa" case.
 
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