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Definition of Horrible
1. Adjective. Provoking horror. "An ugly wound"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Frightfulness
Definition of Horrible
1. a. Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
Definition of Horrible
1. Noun. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. ¹
2. Noun. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. ¹
3. Adjective. Causing horror; terrible; shocking. ¹
4. Adjective. Tremendously wrong or errant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horrible
1. something that causes horror [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrible
Literary usage of Horrible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... though ' the enemy's ships lie much exposed to the operation of fireships, it
is a horrible mode of warfare, and the attempt hazardous if not desperate. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"These horrible suggestions are made with a composure and good faith which astounds
the ... He is awful in his smiling experience, his horrible suggestions. ..."
3. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"[December, 1875] LOOK upon their election [Whipper and Moses as judges] sa horrible
disaster — a disaster equally great to the State to the Republican party ..."
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