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English Dictionary: Horrible by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
horrible
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Horrible \Hor"ri*ble\, a. [OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible,
      orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See
      {Horror}.]
      Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful;
      terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible
      story; a horrible murder.
  
               A dungeon horrible on all sides round.   --Milton.
  
      Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific;
               shocking; hideous; horrid.
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