different between horrible vs flagrant

English

Etymology

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(?re) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/, /?h???b?l/, [-b??]
• (NYC, Philadelphia, Ireland) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/

Noun

horrible (plural horribles)

1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!

   • 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

     A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

   • 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey

     The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

   • 2000, John Dean, CNN interview, January 21, 2000:

     I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.

   • 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights

     Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

2. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Translations

Adjective

horrible (comparative horribler or more horrible, superlative horriblest or most horrible)

1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
2. Tremendously bad.
   • 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:

     Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:frightening
• See Thesaurus:bad

Related terms

• horrific
• horrify
• horror
• horrendous

Translations

References

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible (epicene, plural horribles)

1. horrible

Related terms

• horror

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /u?ri.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?ri.ble/

Adjective

horrible (masculine and feminine plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblement

Related terms

• horror

French

Etymology

From Old French horrible, orrible, orible, borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?ibl/

Adjective

horrible (plural horribles)

1. horrible; causing horror.

Related terms

• horreur

Further reading

• “horrible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• horríbel

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible m or f (plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblemente

Related terms

• horror

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible

1. horrible

Descendants

• English: horrible

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible (plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblemente

Related terms

• horror

English

Alternative forms

• flagraunt (obsolete, rare)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?fle?.???nt/

Etymology 1

From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
   • 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

     It is certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals we never entertain such an absurdity as that of passive obedience, but make allowances for resistance in the more flagrant instances of tyranny and oppression.

2. (archaic) On fire; flaming.

Synonyms

• (obvious and offensive): blatant, glaring
• (on fire): burning, flaming

Related terms

• in flagrante delicto

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin fr?grans, participle of fr?gr? (“smell, reek”)

Adjective

flagrant (comparative more flagrant, superlative most flagrant)

1. (obsolete) Misspelling of fragrant.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fl????ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fl????an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fla???ant/

Adjective

flagrant (masculine and feminine plural flagrants)

1. flaming, burning
2. flagrant, blatant

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flagrant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flagrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flagrant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French flagrant, from Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla???r?nt/
• Hyphenation: fla?grant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative flagrantst)

1. flagrant, blatant (obvious and offensive)

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Latin flagr?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.????/

Adjective

flagrant (feminine singular flagrante, masculine plural flagrants, feminine plural flagrantes)

1. flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident

Derived terms

• flagramment
• prendre en flagrant délit

Related terms

• flagrance

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin flagrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fla???ant]

Adjective

flagrant (comparative flagranter, superlative am flagrantesten)

1. flagrant

Declension

Further reading

• “flagrant” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

fl?grant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fl?gr?

Romanian

Etymology

From French flagrant.

Adjective

flagrant m or n (feminine singular flagrant?, masculine plural flagran?i, feminine and neuter plural flagrante)

1. flagrant

Declension