horrible

Etymology
First attested in (alternately as  and ) in 1303 : from  , , , from ,   from  +.

Noun

 * 1) A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
 * 2) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
 * 1) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
 * 1) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
 * 1) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
 * 1) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
 * 1) A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Turkish: ,

Adjective

 * 1) Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
 * 2) Tremendously bad.
 * 1) Tremendously bad.
 * 1) Tremendously bad.
 * 1) Tremendously bad.
 * 1) Tremendously bad.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:frightening
 * See Thesaurus:bad

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: رَهِيب, فَظِيع
 * Asturian: horrible
 * Belarusian: жахлі́вы, стра́шны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chechen: къемате
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 可怕的, 可畏
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , , karmiva,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: საშინელი
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φρικώδης, αἰνός, ἄπλατος
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: gránna, uafásach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қорқынышты
 * Korean:
 * Latin: dīrus, horribilis, horrificus, horrendus
 * Latvian: šausmīgs
 * Macedonian: ужасен, страшен
 * Malayalam: ഭയാനകമായ
 * Norman: hôrribl'ye
 * Old English: eġeslīċ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̏жа̄сан, стра́шан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: hrozný, strašný
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tocharian B: empele
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: жахли́вий, страшни́й


 * Arabic: فَظِيع, أَرْبَد
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 糟透的
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Kazakh: жантүршігерлік
 * Malayalam:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

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Adjective

 * 1)  causing horror

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Borrowed from, , , from.

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