Horrible (Adjective)
Meaning
Provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The terrorist attack was a horrible event that shook the entire nation to its core.
- The medical examiner described the serial killer's crime scene as horrible beyond description.
- Witnesses described the multi-car pileup on the highway as a horrible scene with wreckage scattered everywhere.
- The aftermath of the devastating earthquake was horrible, with survivors trapped under rubble and debris.
- The film's graphic depiction of torture was so horrible that it left many viewers disturbed and traumatized.