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Horrible meaning

  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.

Synonyms of Horrible

Using Horrible

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • Useful related words include: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly.
  • In the example corpus, horrible often appears in combinations such as: is horrible, the horrible, horrible horrible.

Context around Horrible

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Horrible

  • In this selection, "horrible" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, felt, done, absolutely, things, mistake and choices stand out and add context to how "horrible" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include i felt horrible when we and a horrible horrible almost demonic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "horrible" sits close to words such as disc, founders and stanford, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with horrible

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Absolutely horrible to sit in, let alone drive. (8 words)

Horrible really, really horrible word for word repeats, lies of trumpCo. (11 words)

It's also a horrible, horrible night, because I had a thousand bucks on Robert. (15 words)

Mine was a childhood of smells: the horrible smell of the chemical Mam used for perms, and the even more horrible fumes from the chemicals Dad used when he polished furniture in the kitchen — where my mother cooked and the family ate. (42 words)

And when I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. (41 words)

But Jasprit Bumrah, who had taken the prized wicket of Joe Root – to a horrible stroke made even more horrible by the circumstances (Ollie Pope’s, three balls later, was perhaps worse) – earlier on, made the new ball talk immediately. (40 words)

One of the questions about his character is, why does he get away with being such a horrible, horrible, almost demonic person? (22 words)

Example sentences (20)

We all know we've made some horrible, horrible choices and we've done horrible things.

They took my daughters laptop, she’s autistic, so that has caused a major meltdown – just horrible, horrible people,” said Seren.

It's also a horrible, horrible night, because I had a thousand bucks on Robert.

One of the questions about his character is, why does he get away with being such a horrible, horrible, almost demonic person?

Look, we're in uncharted territory here for a lot of people, and hopefully Jennifer's employer is forgiving as this was clearly a horrible, horrible mistake.

Allanah McClintock, Snyder’s court-appointed public defender, said his crimes were isolated, “a horrible, horrible mistake” and committed in an unsophisticated manner.

If you’re in the hospital for four weeks, you have about a coin-flip chance of developing C. diff, which is a horrible, horrible intestinal infection.

Mine was a childhood of smells: the horrible smell of the chemical Mam used for perms, and the even more horrible fumes from the chemicals Dad used when he polished furniture in the kitchen — where my mother cooked and the family ate.

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But Jasprit Bumrah, who had taken the prized wicket of Joe Root – to a horrible stroke made even more horrible by the circumstances (Ollie Pope’s, three balls later, was perhaps worse) – earlier on, made the new ball talk immediately.

Horrible, horrible images and death threats,” according to a TV interview during which she said that she regretted the incident and apologized.

Horrible really, really horrible word for word repeats, lies of trumpCo.

I felt horrible when we were making our last record, and I felt horrible when we were making the record before that, because that's when I first knew we were ending the band.

I’ll never forget the horrible things that we saw or the horrible pieces that we had to pick up after.

Absolutely horrible to sit in, let alone drive.

A chamber of commerce attorney previously said the massacre was horrible but the nuisance it caused was not ongoing.

Advising people to be mindful of their lifestyle, particularly what they consume, the pathologist said, “It is horrible the way we are seeing the markers of kidney diseases these days.

Alas, it was far from the only such act as England reprised their rancid form of the August warm-up matches like a horrible recurring fever dream.

Although the music video and lyrics are considered to be horrible, the song has since become a cult classic.

A nation already in mourning after being ravaged by Cyclone Freddy has been further infuriated by Malawi’s Flames horrible performance in Cairo where they lost 2-0 to hosts Egypt’s Pharaohs in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

And when I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective.

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Common combinations with horrible

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "horrible" in a sentence?
An example: "We all know we've made some horrible, horrible choices and we've done horrible things." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "horrible" from authentic English texts.
What does "horrible" mean?
Horrible means: A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
What are synonyms of "horrible"?
Common synonyms of "horrible" include: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly, alarming.
How many example sentences with "horrible" are there?
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