Usually means: Extremely unpleasant, distressing, or frightening.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word horrible:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. horrible: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. horrible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horrible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horrible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horrible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horrible, horrible: Wordnik
  7. horrible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. horrible: Wiktionary
  9. horrible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. horrible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. horrible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Horrible, horrible: Dictionary.com
  13. horrible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. horrible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Horrible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Horrible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. horrible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. horrible: Rhymezone
  19. horrible, horrible, horrible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. horrible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. horrible: Free Dictionary
  22. horrible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. horrible: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. horrible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horrible: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. horrible: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. horrible: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See horribleness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
noun:  A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
adjective:  Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
adjective:  Tremendously bad.

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