Definition of horrible
1 : marked by or arousing painful and intense fear, dread, dismay, or aversion : marked by or arousing horror a horrible accident
2 : extremely bad or unpleasant a horrible mistake horrible food
horrible
nounhorribleness
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Examples of horrible in a Sentence
He suffered a horrible death.
The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
The team had a horrible season last year.
He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
Recent Examples of horrible from the Web
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Their messages are truly horrible: Some threatened to stop watching the show.
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There are lots of horrible details in the lawsuit, which can be read here.
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Grilli’s mound maintenance — Jason Grilli got out to the mound and had a flashback to a horrible moment from his career.
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A reasonable voluntary separation agreement brings to a close one part of this horrible tragedy.
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Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities – our homes, our pantries, our schools, our careers, and our health.
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The disaster brought to life the towers of waste depicted in the 2008 dystopian children's movie WALL-E, which portrayed the horrible yet real idea that our trash could pile up uncontrollably, squeezing us out of our habitat.
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The show depicts a brutal world where horrible things happen.
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Making matters worse, the UK fields had horrible over-winter survival, including in the controls, so the numbers weren't high enough to perform any statistical analysis at all.
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Origin and Etymology of horrible
Middle English orrible, horrible, from Anglo-French, from Latin horribilis, from horrēre
HORRIBLE Defined for English Language Learners
horrible
playDefinition of horrible for English Language Learners
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: causing horror : very shocking and upsetting
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: very bad or unpleasant
HORRIBLE Defined for Kids
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