horrible

Meanings

Noun

• A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
• A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Adjective

• Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
• Tremendously bad.

Origin

• First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horrere + -ibilis.