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hor·ri·ble

(hôr′ə-bəl, hŏr′-)

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 horrēre, to tremble.]

hor′ri·ble·ness n.

hor′ri·bly adv.

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horribly

(ˈhɒrɪblɪ)

adv

1. in a horrible manner

2. (intensifier): I'm horribly bored.

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Adv.

horribly - of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"

dreadfully, awfully

Translations

بِصورَة فَظيعَه أو مُرْعِبَه

hrozně

frygteligthæsligt

aasig schrecklich

φρικτά

horriblement affreusement

iszonyúan

hryllilega, hræîilega

orrendamente orribilmente

redselsfullt

korkunç/iğrenç bir şekilde

可怕地

horribly

[ˈhɒrɪblɪ] ADV

1. (= dreadfully) [difficult, rich, embarrassed, expensive] → terriblemente, tremendamente
I was horribly drunk → tenía una borrachera terrible, estaba borrachísimo
I felt horribly embarrassed by the whole thing → me sentía terriblemente or tremendamente abochornado por todo aquello
it's all gone horribly wrong → todo ha salido terriblemente mal

2. (= horrifically) [die, injure, scream] → de una forma horrible; [mutilated, disfigured] → horriblemente, espantosamente
they died horribly → murieron de una forma horrible, tuvieron una muerte horrible
men with horribly scarred faces → hombres con unas cicatrices horribles en la cara

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

horribly

[ˈhɒrɪbli] adv

[cruel, selfish] → horriblement
to behave horribly → se comporter horriblement mal

(= extremely) [embarrassing, expensive, uncomfortable, drunk] → très
Our plans have gone horribly wrong → Nos projets ont très mal tourné.

[disfigured] → atrocement; [murdered] → sauvagement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

horribly

adv

(= in a horrible manner) → grauenhaft; murdered → auf grauenhafte Art; they died horribly → sie starben einen grauenhaften Tod; the man had been horribly injured → der Mann hatte grauenhafte Verletzungen davongetragen

(inf: = dreadfully) drunk, expensive, embarrassed → schrecklich (inf), → fürchterlich (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

horribly

[ˈhɒrɪblɪ] adv (see adj) → in modo orribile or orrendo, tremendamente, spaventosamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

horror

(ˈhorə) noun

1. great fear or dislike. She has a horror of spiders; She looked at me in horror.

2. a disagreeable person or thing. Her little boy is an absolute horror.

ˈhorrible adjective

1. causing horror; dreadful. a horrible sight.

2. unpleasant. What a horrible day!

ˈhorribleness noun

ˈhorribly adverb

ˈhorrid (-rid) adjective

1. unpleasant. That was a horrid thing to say.

2. dreadful. a horrid shriek.

horrific (həˈrifik) adjective

terrible; terrifying. a horrific accident; a horrific journey.

ˈhorrify (-fai) verb

to shock greatly. Mrs Smith was horrified to find that her son had a tattooed chest.

ˈhorrifying adjective

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But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear: great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly: the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athene had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders.

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"Shall you think I am horribly greedy," she asked, "if I say that I should like something to eat?

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If you knew what my thoughts are; if you knew how hard I have fought against them, and how horribly they have gone on haunting me in the lonely quiet of this house, you would pity and forgive me.

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"How horribly unjust of you!" cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.

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His teeth were long and sharp and grinned horribly, while his lower lip hung down upon his chest, and he had ears like elephant's ears, which covered his shoulders, and nails like the claws of some fierce bird.

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But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.

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His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire, his heart, which had been fluttering faintly, gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth.

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The stench that assailed him turned him horribly sick.

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She looked so horribly grown up in it that we felt as if she were lost to us already.

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He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.

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It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.

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Poor Anne could only blush horribly and murmur, "not very lately," which was taken by all, Mrs.