horrible
/ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- Tremendously bad.
Etymology / origin
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”).
- horribilis(Latin)→
- -(fro)→
- -(enm)→
- horrible (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der
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