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horrible
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)
- 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.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- 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)
- Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
- 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.
- 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- horrible
Derived terms
- horriblemente
Related terms
- horror
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible
- horrible
Descendants
- English: horrible
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horribilis.
Adjective
horrible (plural horribles)
- horrible
Derived terms
- horriblemente
Related terms
- horror
horrible From the web:
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- what horrible riverdale plotline are you
- what terrible tragedy happened in 1989
- what horrible thought struck harry
- what terrible things happened in 2020
- what worst things happened in 2020
- what bad things happened in 2020
tragic
English
Alternative forms
- tragick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (tragikós, “of or relating to tragedy”), from ?????? (trágos, “male goat”), a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æd??k/
- Rhymes: -æd??k
Adjective
tragic (comparative more tragic, superlative most tragic)
- Causing great sadness or suffering.
- Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
- (in tabloid newspapers) Having been the victim of a tragedy.
- 2008, Search for tragic Madeleine McCann over (in The Daily Telegraph of Australia, 14 February 2008) [2]
- 2012, Gary Meneely, Keano’s tribute to tragic James (in The Irish Sun, 25 June 2012) [3]
Derived terms
- tragic flaw
Related terms
- tragicomic
- tragical
- tragically
Translations
Noun
tragic (plural tragics)
- (Australia, colloquial) An obsessive fan, a superfan
- 2011 March 31. James Macsmith "General Russell Crowe and his Rabbitoh minions" CNN Travel:
- Within the club itself, Crowe is regarded not only as a benefactor but as a fanatic -- a Rabbitohs tragic.
- 2013 March 13. Ricky Stuart, quoted in "Doping scandal is overwhelming league: Stuart":
- I'm a fan of rugby league. I'm a tragic of rugby league.
- 2013 August 28. Kent Steedman, The Guardian "The Knowledge: Rifled In"
- Damian was/is a football tragic, the rest of us just like it to varying degrees.
- 2015 March 29. Jermaine, Wharf Hotel website WE DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL - WE LOVE IT!
- Footy's back and as I'm a footy tragic it means I'm one very happy man.
- 2011 March 31. James Macsmith "General Russell Crowe and his Rabbitoh minions" CNN Travel:
- (obsolete) A writer of tragedy.
- (obsolete) A tragedy; a tragic drama.
Romanian
Etymology
From French tragique, from Latin tragicus.
Adjective
tragic m or n (feminine singular tragic?, masculine plural tragici, feminine and neuter plural tragice)
- tragical
Declension
tragic From the web:
- what tragic event happened in 1944
- what tragic event caused maggie's injuries
- what tragic event was caused by the bombing of cambodia
- what tragic event happened today
- what tragic scene ended bewitched
- what tragic event happened yesterday
- what tragic events happened in 2020
- what tragic event happened on the pharaoh
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