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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOR'RIBLE, a. [L. horribilis. See Horror.] Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as a horrible figure or sight; a horrible story.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English orrible, horrible, from Anglo-French, from Latin horribilis, from horr?re Date: 14th century 1. marked by or arousing horror <a horrible accident> 2. extremely bad or unpleasant <a horrible mistake> <horrible food> • horrible noun • horribleness noun • horribly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 causing or likely to cause horror; hideous, shocking. 2 colloq. unpleasant, excessive (horrible weather; horrible noise). Derivatives: horribleness n. horribly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF (h)orrible f. L horribilis f. horrere: see HORRID

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horrible Hor"ri*ble, a. [OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See Horror.] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. --Milton. Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something or someone as horrible, you do not like them at all. (INFORMAL) The record sounds horrible. ...a horrible small boy. ADJ • horribly When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly. ADV: ADV with v 2. 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 ADJ • horribly A two-year-old boy was horribly murdered. ADV: ADV with v 3. Horrible is used to emphasize how bad something is. That seems like a horrible mess that will drag on for years... = awful ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] • horribly Our plans have gone horribly wrong... ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hor'-i-b'-l (sha`arur, sha`aruri): In Jer 5:30 sha`arur, "vile," "horrible," is translated "horrible," "a wonderful and horrible thing" the Revised Version margin "astonishment and horror"; also Jer 23:14; in 18:13; Ho 6:10 it is sha`aruri; in Ps 11:6 we have zil`aphah, "heat," the Revised Version (British and American) "burning wind"; in Ps 40:2 sha'on, "noise," "tumult," "He brought me up .... out of a horrible pit," the Revised Version margin "a pit of tumult" (or destruction). Horribly is the translation of sa`ar, "to shudder," "to be whirled away," in Jer 2:12, and of sa`ar, "fear," "trembling," in Eze 32:10; in Eze 27:35 the Revised Version (British and American) has "horribly afraid" (sa`ar) for "sore afraid." "Horrible" occurs frequently in Apocrypha (2 Esdras 11:45; 15:28,34; The Wisdom of Solomon 3:19, "For horrible (chalepos) is the end of the unrighteous generation" the Revised Version (British and American) "grievous" etc.).

W. L. Walker

Moby Thesaurus

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