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orribile — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • awful adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  • dreadful adj Very bad, unpleasant, or shocking.
  • ghastly adj Extremely unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying.
  • gruesome adj Causing horror or disgust, especially through graphic violence or death.
  • hideous adjective Extremely or shockingly ugly.
  • horrible adj Causing horror; extremely unpleasant or shocking.

Senses

orribile is used for these senses in English:

  • awful Very bad.
  • awful (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
  • dreadful Full of something causing dread, whether
  • ghastly Extremely bad.
  • gruesome Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
  • hideous Extremely or shockingly ugly.
  • horrible Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

awful — full definition

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

dreadful — full definition

  1. adj Very bad, unpleasant, or shocking.
  2. adj Causing genuine fear or horror.
  3. noun A cheaply printed, sensational story or crime report, especially from the 19th century (a "penny dreadful").
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