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horrible — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • awful adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  • ghastly adj Extremely unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying.
  • gruesome adj Causing horror or disgust, especially through graphic violence or death.
  • horrible adj Causing horror; extremely unpleasant or shocking.
  • horrid adj Very unpleasant, nasty, or unkind.
  • macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.
  • terrible adj Very bad or unpleasant.

Senses

horrible is used for these senses in English:

  • awful Very bad.
  • awful (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
  • ghastly Extremely bad.
  • gruesome Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
  • horrible Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  • horrible Tremendously bad.
  • horrid Causing horror or dread.
  • macabre Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

awful — full definition

  1. adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  2. adv informal: Very; extremely.

ghastly — full definition

  1. adj Extremely unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying.
  2. adj Pale and deathly-looking.
  3. adj (informal, especially British) Very bad or unpleasant, used for milder complaints as well as serious horror.

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