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horrible

horrible (plural horribles)

1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     Heres a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, Ill go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!

   • 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

     A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

   • 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey

     The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods heads, whales, pigs hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

   • 2000, John Dean, CNN interview, January 21, 2000:

     Im trying to convince him that the criminal behavior thats going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.

   • 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Laws Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights

     Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

2. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

horrible (comparative more horrible, superlative most horrible)

1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
   • 1953, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:

     Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; were waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.

   • 1949, J. D. Salinger, The Laughing Man:

     Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Mans horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.

2. Tremendously wrong or errant.
   • 1933, James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times:

     Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Definizione dizionario horrible

	orribile
	causing horror, terrible

mostruoso

orrendo

	terribile
	causing horror, terrible

schifoso

sgradevole

spiacevole

abominevole

afflitto

brusco

crudele

enorme

rude

spaventoso

tremendo

triste

Altri significati:

Tremendously wrong or errant.

A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

tremendously wrong or errant

terrifying thing

A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.