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    horrible
    /ˈhɒrɪbl/

    adjective

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  3. Horrible is an adjective that means very unpleasant or bad, or very shocking and frightening. Learn how to use it in different contexts, see examples, and find synonyms and antonyms.

  4. Learn the meaning, synonyms, examples, and history of the word horrible, which means marked by or arousing horror or extremely bad. Find out how to use horrible in a sentence and how to cite it.

  5. Horrible is popularly used to mean extremely badawful, dreadful, or horrendous. When it’s used to describe a person, it often means extremely disagreeable or cruel. Much less commonly, it can mean literally causing horror—horrifying or horrific.

  6. Horrible means "causing horror," and goes back to the Latin word for “tremble” or “shudder.”. A horrible thing makes you shake with fear, like a story about an atrocious crime. We also use horrible hyperbolically (which means in an over-the-top way) to criticize things.

  7. Learn the meaning of horrible, an adjective that describes something or someone very unpleasant, shocking, or disgusting. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples, and word origin of horrible.

  8. Horrible means very bad or unpleasant, or used to describe something that you do not like. Learn how to use it in different contexts, such as weather, feelings, actions, and people, with synonyms and pictures.

  9. Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective horrible, which can describe something very bad, unpleasant or shocking. See synonyms, antonyms and example sentences from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.

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