horrible
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
Noun 2 meanings
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Adjective 2 meanings
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
Tremendously bad.
Etymology
First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
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HORRIBLE at a glance
HORRIBLE has 8 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + R 1 + R 1 + I 1 + B 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,302 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with horrible
All rhymes- ABLE6
- POSSIBLE12
- AVAILABLE14
- TABLE7
- DOUBLE9
- RESPONSIBLE15
- TROUBLE9
- IMPOSSIBLE16
- TERRIBLE10
- COMFORTABLE20
- INCREDIBLE15
- CAPABLE13
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