horrible
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
Other meanings
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Related words
- horribleness
- horribly
- unhorrible
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "horribilis".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “horrible” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.