horrible

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"Oh, it is horrible--horrible in the sulphur mines!

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  1. adjective Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: "War is beyond all words horrible” (Winston S. Churchill).
  2. adjective Very unpleasant; disagreeable.

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  • It was much like the wall of an ancient torture chamber in which the victim might watch death--horrible, crushing death, slowly closing in upon all sides Yet Doc and his men walked slowly into the tube, with the guns prodding them. —  038 - The Men Who Smiled No More
  • "I've heard the most extraordinary story from Maud Ashfield--horrible, but so frightfully interesting Out with it," said Hugh. —  Collected Stories
  • Not horrible, which is where we're headed quickly ... —  Podium Cafe
  • Nycholat is worthless, and the prospect Ryan Wilson is described as a horrible knock-kneed, slow footed skater who gets lost out on the ice. —  [Home] Post Staff blogs
  • And then tragedy - horrible, absurd, and darkly hysterical tragedy - strikes. —  Twitch
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin horribilis, from horrēre, to tremble.

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  1. from Middle English horrible, horreble, orrible, from Old French horrible, orible = Provencal horrible, orrible = Spanish horrible = Portuguese horrivel = Italian orribile, from Latin horribilis, terrible, fearful, dreadful, from horrere, be terrified, fear, dread: see horrent.
 

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