adj.

1. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: “War is beyond all words horrible” (Winston S. Churchill).
2. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin horribilis, from horrēre, to tremble.]

horribleness hor'ri·ble·ness n.
horribly hor'ri·bly adv.

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adjective

1. Causing great horror: bloodcurdling, hair-raising, horrid, horrific, terrific. See fear/courage.
2. Shockingly repellent: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrid, lurid, macabre. See beautiful/ugly.
3. Very bad: appalling, awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, horrendous, shocking, terrible. See good/bad.

adj

Definition: unpleasant
Antonyms: pleasant

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IN BRIEF: Very frightening or unpleasant.

Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skrækkelig, grufuld, frygtelig, forfærdelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
huiveringwekkend, afschuwelijk, gruwelijk, naar

Français (French)
adj. - horrible, épouvantable, méchant (avec qn), horrible (un crime, une mort)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - horrend, grauenhaft, abscheulich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φρικτός, απαίσιος

Italiano (Italian)
orribile, orripilante, spaventoso, terrificante

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - horrível

Русский (Russian)
ужасающий, роман ужасов, нечто ужасное

Español (Spanish)
adj. - horrible, horrendo, horroroso, horripilante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - fasansfull, fruktansvärd, otäck, hemsk

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
可怕的, 极可厌的, 极可憎的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 可怕的, 極可厭的, 極可憎的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 무서운, 소름 끼치도록 싫은, 지독한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 恐ろしい, 不愉快な, ひどい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) رهيب, كريه إلى أقصى حد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מגעיל, איום, נורא‬

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