Meaning

2 senses
  1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

  2. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Examples

527 sentences
  1. I think that's horrible.

    Я думаю, що це жахливо.

    ruЯ думаю, это ужасно.

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  2. What happened was horrible.

    Те, що трапилося, було жахливим.

    ruТо, что случилось, было ужасно.

    deWas passierte war schrecklich.

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  3. That's a horrible idea.

    Це жахлива ідея.

    ruЭто ужасная идея.

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  4. That's a horrible plan.

    Це жахливий план.

    ruЭто ужасный план.

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  5. This picture is horrible.

    Ця фотографія жахлива.

    ruЭта картина ужасна.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old F

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

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Forms

plural: horribles
Singularhorrible
Pluralhorribles

regular

Collocations

12 patterns
  • something horrible
  • was a horrible
  • had a horrible
  • horrible thing
  • made a horrible
  • what a horrible
  • something horrible is
  • a horrible thing
  • a horrible mistake
  • that something horrible
  • something horrible has
  • horrible has happened

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
horrible — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto