HORRIBLE meaning: Causing great distress or fear

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word horrible:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

horrible: Merriam-Webster
horrible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
horrible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
horrible: Collins English Dictionary
horrible: Vocabulary.com
Horrible, horrible: Wordnik
horrible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
horrible: Wiktionary
horrible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
horrible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
horrible: Infoplease Dictionary
Horrible, horrible: Dictionary.com
horrible: Online Etymology Dictionary
horrible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Horrible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Horrible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
horrible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
horrible: Rhymezone
horrible, horrible, horrible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
horrible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
horrible: FreeDictionary.org
horrible: Mnemonic Dictionary
horrible: TheFreeDictionary.com
horrible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
horrible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

horrible: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

horrible: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
horrible: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Opposite:

wonderful, delightful, excellent, splendid, marvelous

Types:

cruel, abusive, disgusting, offensive, repulsive, atrocious, appalling, ghastly, gruesome, more...

Phrases:

hagar the horrible, Horrible Bosses, Horrible Bosses 2, Horrible Histories, A Horrible Way to Die, more...

Adjectives:

most, sudden, least, bloody, terrible, sound, mexican, time, day, wonderful, alternative

Colors:

dark red, bile green, blood red, sickly yellow, bruise purple, more...

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