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Definition of horrible : Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.

Synonyms:

nightmare, flagitious, monstrous, obscene, imposing, formidable, revolting, repugnant, grand, lousy, surly, despicable, solemn, hard, noisome, august, fearful, worthless, rotten, painful, nauseous, loathsome, abominable, shocking, intimidating, atrocious, unkind, inhuman, unworthy, horrific, spine-chilling, forbidding, grievous, abhorrent, sickening, cruel, nauseating, odious, noble, ugly, hateful, execrable, evil, portentous, obnoxious, direful, sucky, horrendous, fearsome, good, dread, noxious, shameful, grisly, macabre, beautiful, bloodcurdling, redoubtable, gruesome, nasty, majestic, scary, hair-raising, unspeakable, lurid, punk, wretched, distasteful, terrifying, rancid, slimy, fulsome, terrific, tremendous, foul, fear, grim, gross, uncharitable, nightmarish, pitiless, repellent, frightening, horrifying, stately, scandalous, detestable, dismal, vile

dreadful, terrible, alarming, frightful, ghastly, awful, unpleasant, dire, repulsive, hideous, horrid, appalling

disgusting, offensive

Usage examples:

• " It is most horrible," she said at last; " but I believe it is most true. - "Charlotte's Inheritance", M. E. Braddon.
• I set it down here as a horrible example of how not to do it. - "Dawson Black: Retail Merchant", Harold Whitehead.
• Many people live a great deal too long as it is, and it is horrible to believe that they go on for ever. - "Love Eternal", H. Rider Haggard.