horrible!

Definition of horrible! in English English dictionary: Causing horror; terrible; shocking; Tremendously wrong or errant; {a} dreadful, terrible, shocking, hideous; A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles; 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; A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act; {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