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- pronunciation:
- ho
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word History
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
causing or tending to cause a feeling of horror; dreadful.
He woke up screaming after a horrible nightmare.- synonyms:
- dreadful, ghastly, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, terrible
- antonyms:
- appealing
- similar words:
- atrocious, bloodcurdling, dire, dread, gory, grisly, gruesome, macabre, scary
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| definition 2: |
very unpleasant, disagreeable, or ugly; disgusting.
The robbers created a horrible mess in the house.How can you eat at that place? The food is horrible!All the roommates are fighting now, and the situation is horrible.- synonyms:
- abominable, awful, disgusting, dreadful, frightful, horrendous, horrid, obnoxious, revolting
- antonyms:
- delightful, lovely
- similar words:
- abhorrent, abysmal, appalling, atrocious, beastly, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, ghastly, hideous, loathsome, offensive, rank, repugnant, repulsive, shocking, terrible, unpleasant
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| related words: |
dreadful, grim, heinous, lurid, monstrous, morbid, nasty, odious, putrid, tremendous |
adverb + (adj.)horrible
absolutely, this, truly, unbelievably, unspeakably
(adj.)horrible
+ adverb
embarrassingly
(adj.)horrible
+ noun
accident,
act,
agony,
atrocity,
bitch,
blog,
breakup,
carnage,
clarity,
cough,
crash,
creature,
crime,
death,
deed,
demon,
disaster,
disease,
dread,
embarrassment,
ending,
epidemic,
fate,
feeling,
groan,
hag,
howl,
incident,
injustice,
maniac,
massacre,
mess,
misery,
mistake,
monster,
murder,
nightmare,
noise,
ordeal,
pain,
precedent,
realization,
sadness,
scream,
screaming,
screech,
sight,
situation,
slump,
smell,
sound,
stench,
suffering,
suspicion,
thing,
thought,
torture,
tragedy,
trauma
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| derivations: |
horribly (adv.), horribleness (n.) |
Horrible comes from a Latin word that means "bristly or savage looking."
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