Word Meanings - HORRIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: HORRIBLE
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HORRIBLE)
- Abominable
- Abhorrent
- foul
- accursed
- detestable
- hateful
- horrible
- loathsome
- odious
- offensive
- execrable
- nauseous
- impure
- Awful
- Fearful
- direful
- appalling
- terrible
- alarming
- dreadful
- solemn
- portentous
- horrific
- Dreadful
- shocking
- monstrous
- dire
- frightful
- terrific
- awful
- Timid
- hesitating
- apprehensive
- afraid
- Formidable
- terrifying
- discouraging
- serious
- fearful
Related words: (words related to HORRIBLE)
- SERIOUS
1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting - SOLEMNIZATION
The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. - ABOMINABLENESS
The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. - SOLEMNIZE
1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers - DISCOURAGING
Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. - APPREHENSIVENESS
The quality or state of being apprehensive. - SOLEMN
Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; - ABOMINABLE
1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time , - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - FEARFULNESS
The state of being fearful. - SOLEMNIZATE
To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet. - SHOCKDOG
See 1 - OFFENSIVE
1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach." - SOLEMNLY
In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift. - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - HATEFUL
1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn. - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - APPALL
1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only - HESITATINGLY
With hesitation or doubt. - COMMODIOUSLY
In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton. - FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n. - INOFFENSIVE
1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.