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horrível — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • awful adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  • dire adj Extremely serious or urgent, often warning of disaster.
  • dreadful adj Very bad, unpleasant, or shocking.
  • grisly adv In a horrifying or gruesome manner.
  • horrible adj Causing horror; extremely unpleasant or shocking.
  • horrid adj Very unpleasant, nasty, or unkind.
  • lousy adj Very poor in quality; remarkably bad.
  • miserable adj Extremely unhappy, especially over a period of time.
  • rubbish noun (chiefly British) Waste material; trash or garbage.
  • terrible adj Very bad or unpleasant.

Senses

horrível is used for these senses in English:

  • awful Very bad.
  • awful (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
  • dire Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  • dire Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  • dreadful Full of something causing dread, whether
  • grisly Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
  • horrible Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  • horrible A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

awful — full definition

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

dire — full definition

  1. adj Extremely serious or urgent, often warning of disaster.
  2. adj (informal) Extremely bad in quality.
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