horrible

Definition von horrible im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Causing horror; terrible; shocking; Tremendously wrong or errant; A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles; A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act
Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.; {a} dreadful, terrible, shocking, hideous; You can call something horrible when it causes you to feel great shock, fear, and disgust. Still the horrible shrieking came out of his mouth. = terrible + horribly hor·ri·bly A two-year-old boy was horribly murdered; {s} terrible, awful; disgusting, repulsive; provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"; emphasis Horrible is used to emphasize how bad something is. That seems like a horrible mess that will drag on for years = awful + horribly hor·ri·bly Our plans have gone horribly wrong; Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder; If you describe something or someone as horrible, you do not like them at all. The record sounds horrible. a horrible small boy. + horribly hor·ri·bly When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly
horrible person: hideous person, menace, nuisance
horrible sight: ghastly scene, hideous spectacle, frightful sight
horribly: In a horrible way; very badly
The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
horribly: With a very bad effect
Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
horribly: To an extreme degree or extent
The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
horribleness: {n} a horrible state or quality, horror
horribly: {a} dreadfully, frightfully, hideously
horribleness: The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness
horribleness: {i} dreadfulness, awfulness, repulsiveness
horribleness: The property of being horrible
horribly: awfully, terribly, horrendously
horribly: In a horrible manner; very badly
horribly: In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly
horribly: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"

horrible

Silbentrennung

hor·ri·ble

Türkische aussprache

hôrıbıl

Synonyme

abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful

Antonyme

pleasant

Aussprache

/ˈhôrəbəl/ /ˈhɔːrəbəl/

Etymologie

() First attested in Middle English American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (alternately as horrible and orrible)Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1·1) in 1303Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper: from Old French horrible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) + -ibilis (“-ible”).