1 (especially spoken) very bad or unpleasant; used to describe sth that you do not like:
horrible weather / children / shoes * The coffee tasted horrible. * I've got a horrible feeling she lied to us. * It was horrible sitting there all on my own.
2 making you feel very shocked and frightened:
a horrible crime / nightmare
3 (especially spoken) (of people or their behaviour) unfriendly, unpleasant or unkind:
a horrible man * My sister was being horrible to me all day. * What a horrible thing to say!
horribly adverb:
It was horribly painful. * The experiment went horribly wrong. * She was horribly aware that he was watching her every move.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for horrible is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is horrible a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, horrible is tagged as adjective.
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