adj
Meaning 1
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
horrible
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Tremendously bad.
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noun
Meaning 3
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
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noun
Meaning 4
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
provoking horror- Winston Churchill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an atrocious automobile accident
- a frightful crime of decapitation
- an alarming, even horrifying, picture
- war is beyond all words horrible
- an ugly wound
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Across languages
Translations
115 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: aaklig — causing horror, terrible
- Arabic: رَهِيب (rahīb) — causing horror, terrible
- Arabic: فَظِيع (faẓīʕ) — causing horror, terrible
- Asturian: horrible — causing horror, terrible
- Belarusian: жахлі́вы (žaxlívy) — causing horror, terrible
- Belarusian: стра́шны (strášny) — causing horror, terrible
- Bulgarian: ужа́сен (užásen) — causing horror, terrible
- Bulgarian: стра́шен (strášen) — causing horror, terrible
- Catalan: horrible — causing horror, terrible
- Catalan: hòrrid — causing horror, terrible
- Catalan: esgarrifós — causing horror, terrible
- Chechen: къемате (qʼemate) — causing horror, terrible
- Chinese Mandarin: 可怕的 (kěpà de) — causing horror, terrible
- Chinese Mandarin: 可畏 (kěwèi) — causing horror, terrible
- Czech: hrozný — causing horror, terrible
- Czech: strašný — causing horror, terrible
- Dutch: verschrikkelijk — causing horror, terrible
- Esperanto: horora — causing horror, terrible
- Esperanto: terura — causing horror, terrible
- Finnish: kauhea — causing horror, terrible
- Finnish: kauhistuttava — causing horror, terrible
- Finnish: hirvittävä — causing horror, terrible
- Finnish: karmiva — causing horror, terrible
- Finnish: kammottava — causing horror, terrible
- French: horrible — causing horror, terrible
- French: affreux — causing horror, terrible
- Galician: horrible — causing horror, terrible
- Galician: horríbel — causing horror, terrible
- Georgian: საშინელი (sašineli) — causing horror, terrible
- German: schrecklich — causing horror, terrible
- German: abscheulich — causing horror, terrible
- German: fies — causing horror, terrible
- German: makaber — causing horror, terrible
- German: entsetzlich — causing horror, terrible
- German: grausig — causing horror, terrible
- Ancient Greek: φρικώδης (phrikṓdēs) — causing horror, terrible
- Ancient Greek: αἰνός (ainós) — causing horror, terrible
- Ancient Greek: ἄπλατος (áplatos) — causing horror, terrible
- Hindi: भयंकर (bhayaṅkar) — causing horror, terrible
- Hungarian: borzalmas — causing horror, terrible
- Hungarian: borzasztó — causing horror, terrible
- Hungarian: rettenetes — causing horror, terrible
- Icelandic: hræðilegur — causing horror, terrible
- Ido: ledega — causing horror, terrible
- Irish: gránna — causing horror, terrible
- Irish: uafásach — causing horror, terrible
- Italian: orribile — causing horror, terrible
- Italian: terribile — causing horror, terrible
- Japanese: 恐ろしい (osoroshii) — causing horror, terrible
- Kazakh: қорқынышты (qorqynyşty) — causing horror, terrible
- Korean: 끔찍하다 (kkeumjjikhada) — causing horror, terrible
- Latin: dīrus — causing horror, terrible
- Latin: horribilis — causing horror, terrible
- Latin: horrificus — causing horror, terrible
- Latin: horrendus — causing horror, terrible
- Latvian: šausmīgs — causing horror, terrible
- Macedonian: ужасен (užasen) — causing horror, terrible
- Macedonian: страшен (strašen) — causing horror, terrible
- Malayalam: ഭയാനകമായ (bhayānakamāya) — causing horror, terrible
- Norman: hôrribl'ye — causing horror, terrible
- Old English: eġeslīċ — causing horror, terrible
- Polish: straszny — causing horror, terrible
- Polish: okropny — causing horror, terrible
- Portuguese: horrível — causing horror, terrible
- Romanian: oribil — causing horror, terrible
- Romanian: groaznic — causing horror, terrible
- Romanian: îngrozitor — causing horror, terrible
- Russian: ужа́сный (užásnyj) — causing horror, terrible
- Russian: стра́шный (strášnyj) — causing horror, terrible
- Sanskrit: भीषण (bhīṣaṇa) — causing horror, terrible
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏жа̄сан — causing horror, terrible
- Serbo-Croatian: стра́шан — causing horror, terrible
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕžāsan — causing horror, terrible
- Serbo-Croatian: strášan — causing horror, terrible
- Slovak: hrozný — causing horror, terrible
- Slovak: strašný — causing horror, terrible
- Slovene: grozen — causing horror, terrible
- Spanish: horrible — causing horror, terrible
- Spanish: horroroso — causing horror, terrible
- Swedish: fasansfull — causing horror, terrible
- Swedish: hemsk — causing horror, terrible
- Tocharian B: empele — causing horror, terrible
- Turkish: korkunç — causing horror, terrible
- Ukrainian: жахли́вий (žaxlývyj) — causing horror, terrible
- Ukrainian: страшни́й (strašnýj) — causing horror, terrible
- Arabic: فَظِيع (faẓīʕ) — tremendously bad
- Arabic: أَرْبَد (ʔarbad) — tremendously bad
- Bulgarian: ужасен (užasen) — tremendously bad
- Catalan: horrible — tremendously bad
- Catalan: terrible — tremendously bad
- Catalan: pèssim — tremendously bad
- Chinese: 著災 /著灾 (zh-min-nan) — tremendously bad
- Chinese Mandarin: 糟透 (zāotòu) — tremendously bad
- Chinese Mandarin: 糟糕 (zāogāo) — tremendously bad
- Dutch: verschrikkelijk — tremendously bad
- Finnish: surkea — tremendously bad
- French: horrible — tremendously bad
- French: épouvantable — tremendously bad
- Kazakh: жантүршігерлік (jantürşıgerlık) — tremendously bad
- Malayalam: ചീത്ത (cītta) — tremendously bad
- Polish: okropny — tremendously bad
- Russian: ужа́сный (užásnyj) — tremendously bad
- Turkish: berbat — tremendously bad
- Bulgarian: ужасия (užasija) — terrifying thing
- Finnish: kauheus — terrifying thing
- Malayalam: ഭീകരം (bhīkaraṁ) — terrifying thing
- Malayalam: ബീഭത്സം (bībhatsaṁ) — terrifying thing
- Polish: okropność — terrifying thing
- Polish: okropieństwo — terrifying thing
- Portuguese: horrível — terrifying thing
- Romanian: înfiorare — terrifying thing
- Romanian: înfricoșare — terrifying thing
- Romanian: groază — terrifying thing
- Turkish: korkunç — terrifying thing
- Turkish: berbat — terrifying thing
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