HORRIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horrible mean? 

• HORRIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective HORRIBLE has 1 sense:

1. provoking horror

  Familiarity information: HORRIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORRIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provoking horror

Synonyms:

atrocious; frightful; horrible; horrifying; ugly

Context example:

an ugly wound

Similar:

alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)

 Context examples 

Now he would continue on in this horrible house, writing and starving for a few more months.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Every minute seems an hour while I live in this state of horrible suspense.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Into his snarl he incorporated all that was vicious, malignant, and horrible.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never could survive so horrible a misfortune.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

From now onwards you devote your energies to getting us out of this horrible country and back once more to civilization.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I rushed from the horrible scene, ran from the house, and only next morning in the paper did I learn the dreadful result.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It will always be to me a monstrous, inconceivable thing, a horrible nightmare.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)