horrible
About 6.48 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- noun A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
- adjective Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- adjective Tremendously bad.
- adjective 1 2 3 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adjective 1 2 3 4 Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1·1)
- adjective 1 2 3 Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Similar words
horrifying atrocious alarming frightful ugly horrific dreadful terrible dreaded appalling
Often followed by
to and thing things death as than that in
Word family
horribleness horriblenesses horribles horribly
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