Meaning

2 senses
  1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

    schrecklich, abscheulich, fies

    ужа́сныйužásnyj, стра́шныйstrášnyj

    жахли́вийžaxlývyj, страшни́йstrašnýj

    provoking horror

  2. Tremendously bad.

    ужа́сныйužásnyj

Examples

527 sentences
  1. I think that's horrible.

    Я думаю, що це жахливо. — oksanask

    ruЯ думаю, это ужасно. — odexed

  2. What happened was horrible.

    Те, що трапилося, було жахливим. — deniko

    ruТо, что случилось, было ужасно. — marafon

    deWas passierte war schrecklich. — Melang

  3. That's a horrible idea.

    Це жахлива ідея. — deniko

    ruЭто ужасная идея. — odexed

  4. That's a horrible plan.

    Це жахливий план. — deniko

    ruЭто ужасный план. — marafon

  5. This picture is horrible.

    Ця фотографія жахлива. — deniko

    ruЭта картина ужасна. — odexed

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
causing horror, terrible:
Русский
By meaning 1
causing horror, terrible:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
causing horror, terrible:

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

horribler/more horrible, horriblest/most horrible

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Word family

7 related words

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

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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