horrible

/'hɔrəbl/

Thân thiện

A child has a horrible nightmare.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing or likely to cause horror; shockingly dreadful. It describes something that is extremely unpleasant, frightening, or disturbing.
   • Extremely unpleasant or disagreeable. In informal usage, it describes something that is very bad or of very poor quality.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The survivors described the horrible scene after the earthquake.
  • She had a horrible nightmare that left her trembling.
  • (Informal) I had a horrible headache all day.
  • (Informal) The food at that restaurant was horrible.

Advanced Usage

• "too horrible for words": so awful that it is difficult or impossible to describe.
  • The suffering they endured was too horrible for words.
• "a horrible thought": a very disturbing or frightening idea.
  • The horrible thought of losing her child kept her awake.

Variants and Related Words

• Horribly (adverb): in a horrible manner; to a horrible degree.
  • The experiment went horribly wrong.
• Horrid (adjective): very unpleasant or disagreeable. (Often similar to the informal sense of "horrible").
  • That was a horrid thing to say.
• Horrific (adjective): causing horror. (Often stronger or more formal than "horrible").
  • The documentary showed the horrific conditions.

Synonyms

• Dreadful: extremely bad or unpleasant.
• Terrible: extremely bad or serious; causing terror.
• Appalling: shocking; horrifying.
• Atrocious: horrifyingly wicked; of very poor quality.
• Frightful: very unpleasant, serious, or shocking.

Related Phrases

• A horrible mess: a state that is extremely untidy or chaotic.
  • The children left a horrible mess in the kitchen.
• Feel horrible: to feel very ill, guilty, or upset.
  • I feel horrible about forgetting her birthday.

Related Idioms

• Give someone a horrible feeling: to cause someone to feel very uneasy or apprehensive.
  • The silence in the old house gave me a horrible feeling.
• A fate worse than death: an idiom for a horrible destiny (often used hyperbolically).
  • To him, moving back home would be a fate worse than death.

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• atrocious
• frightful
• horrifying
• ugly