Definitions
Very unpleasant, frightening, shocking, or bad.
Word origin
First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Used in a sentence
“Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!”
“A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.”
“The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Really bad”8 letters
02“very unpleasant”8 letters
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