horrible

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɒɹ.ɪ.bəl/    美 /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/|[-b(ə)ɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
    — 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!
  2. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
形容词 adj.
  1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
    — Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  2. Tremendously bad.
    — Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.

词形变化

horribles plural horribler comparative more horrible comparative horriblest superlative most horrible superlative

词汇关系

近义词
frightening bad
衍生词
horribleness horribly unhorrible
相关词
horrendous horrific horrify horror

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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