# 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(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒɹɪbəl/
* (US) IPA: /ˈhɔɹɪbəl/, /ˈhɒɹɪbəl/, [-bəɫ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* (New York City, Philadelphia, Ireland) IPA: /ˈhɑɹɪbəl/
* Hyphenation: hor‧ri‧ble

### 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 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: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 January 21, John Dean, CNN interview‎: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.
* 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.
** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
** 1949, J. D. Salinger, The Laughing Man:Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.The New Yorker, March 19
** 1953, Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451:Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.
** 1933, James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times:Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
* 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

* horrendous
* horrific
* horrify
* horror

#### References

* 1 2 3 The American Heritage$^®$ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
* 1 2 3 4 Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1·1)
* 1 2 3 Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈrible/ [oˈri.β̞le]
* Rhymes: -ible
* Syllabification: ho‧rri‧ble

### Adjective

horrible (epicene, plural horribles)
* horrible

#### Related terms

* horror

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [uˈrib.blə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [oˈri.ble]

### Adjective

horrible m or f (masculine and feminine plural horribles)
* horrible

#### Derived terms

* horriblement

#### Related terms

* horror

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ.ʁibl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧rri‧ble

### Adjective

horrible (plural horribles)
* horrible (causing horror)

#### Derived terms

* horriblement

#### Related terms

* horreur

### Further reading

* “horrible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* horríbel

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin horribilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈrible/ [oˈri.β̞lɪ]
* Rhymes: -ible
* Hyphenation: ho‧rri‧ble

### Adjective

horrible m or f (plural horribles)
* horrible

#### Derived terms

* horriblemente

#### Related terms

* horror

### Further reading

* “horrible”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈrible/ [oˈri.β̞le]
* Rhymes: -ible
* Syllabification: ho‧rri‧ble

### Adjective

horrible m or f (masculine and feminine plural horribles)
* horrible
    Synonym: desapacible

#### Derived terms

* horriblemente

#### Related terms

* horror

### Further reading

* “horrible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10