horribleadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈhɒrᵻbl/, U.S.

/ˈhɔrəb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1500s or(r)i-, hor(r)i-, h)or(r)y-, -bel(l, -bil(l, -ble, -bull(e, -byl(le, (Middle English orebil, orble, Middle English arrable, horreble, horebyl, Middle English–1500s horrable, horrabul, 1500s orabill), Middle English– horrible.

Etymology: < Old French (h)orrible (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < Latin horribilis , < Latin horrēre : see horre v. and -ble suffix.

A. adj.

a. Exciting or fitted to excite horror; tending to make one shudder; extremely repulsive to the senses or feelings; dreadful, hideous, shocking, frightful, awful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [adjective]

horrible1303

horrid1602

nameless1611

shockinga1704

shocking1703

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective]

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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4472 So grete hyt was and so orryble.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 43 Ane greate zenne, dyadlich, and orrible.

c1375 XI Pains Hell 201 in Old Eng. Misc. 217 Orebil wormys devouryd hem þere.

14.. MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 45 (Halliw.) Fendis led hir with arrable song.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 302 Thanne moot I dye of sodeyn deth horrible [v.r. orrible].

1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 397 a/1 He made the horryblest crye that myght be herde.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvii. 5 It geueth an horrible sownde, when God sendeth out his voyce.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 152 That orabill wes to euerie Cristin man.

1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 35 Bitter and horrible thinges destroye the appetite.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. D2 The horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 61 A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 30 An Apparition and a horrible Monster in the Night.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 343 It is horrible—yes, that is the word—to look forward to another year of disease and darkness.

1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 62 Superb instances of terrible beauty undeformed by horrible detail.

b. as a strong intensive (now colloquial): Excessive, immoderate. (Primarily of things objectionable, but often without such qualification. Cf. awful adj., dreadful adj., adv., and n., frightful adj., tremendous adj.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme

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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 121 Þe kyng of Frauns [was] take prisoner be þe soudan and raunsond to a horibil summe.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) vii. 28 Suche an horryble and dysmesurable a strok.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xvi. sig. D.iii^v [Solomon] multiplying wyues to an horrible noumber.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 178 [He] ranne his head at the wall with such a horrible force as he therewith dash'd out his braines.

1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 33 I cannot get rid of my horrible cold heere.

1676 W. Temple Let. to Charles II in Wks. (1731) II. 423 They had a horrible mind to the Peace.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 403 This Letter is of a horrible length.

c. In combination (parasynthetic).

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Horrible sowned, or voyced, horrisonus, horriuocus.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 325 Horrible shaped Animals.

B. n.

A horrible person or thing; †a being inspiring awe or dread (quot. c1475 at sense C.); a horrible attribute or characteristic; a story of horrible crime or the like (cf. dreadful n.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being awesome > [noun] > object or cause inspiring awe

horriblec1540

dread1590

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] > object or cause of > being

horriblec1540

the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun]

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detestation1728

poison1875

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [noun] > person or thing which inspires horror

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monstrous1742

horrification1801

thing1822

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13260 An old temple..I founde, Of a god, þat with gomes was gretly honouret. At þat orribill I asket angardly myche, Of dethe, & of deire, as destyny willes.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 265 Among all the Horribles that we dress up Satan in.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxix. 188 Such a waggish leering as lurks in all you horribles!

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 7/2 Those children of this world, the writers of ‘penny-dreadfuls’ and ‘halfpenny horribles’.

1899 F. H. Dood in Daily News 13 June 8/5 ‘Penny horribles’ always have a public, though it is questionable if dime novels are now so prominent as they once were.

1909 Daily Chron. 3 Sept. 1/6 Both boys said yesterday that they had been reading ‘penny horribles’ about burglaries.

1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow i. 51 There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

C. adv.

Horribly, terribly; usually as a mere intensive = Exceedingly (cf. horribly adv.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly

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howling1895

murderously1916

rasted1919

goddam1921

bitchingly1923

Christly1923

bitching1929

falling-down1930

lousy1932

appallingly1937

stratospherically1941

Christ almighty1945

effing1945

focking1956

dagnab1961

drop-dead1980

hella1987

totes2006

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 24 Þei curse more souare & horribelare hem þat þei hatun.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiii. 496 By cause of the grete stone that was at his necke, whiche was horryble hevy.

1513 Queen Katherine Let. 13 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 83 I am horrible besy with making standerds, banners, and bagies.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 3 Glost. Me thinks the ground is euen. Edg. Horrible steepe.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F4^v Shee has a horrible high colour indeed.

1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case ii. iii I am horrible angry.

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin v. 84 Her Den groan'd horrible.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 91 A far horribler composed Cant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	horrible
释义	horribleadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈhɒrᵻbl/, U.S. /ˈhɔrəb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1500s or(r)i-, hor(r)i-, h)or(r)y-, -bel(l, -bil(l, -ble, -bull(e, -byl(le, (Middle English orebil, orble, Middle English arrable, horreble, horebyl, Middle English–1500s horrable, horrabul, 1500s orabill), Middle English– horrible. Etymology: < Old French (h)orrible (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < Latin horribilis , < Latin horrēre : see horre v. and -ble suffix. A. adj. a. Exciting or fitted to excite horror; tending to make one shudder; extremely repulsive to the senses or feelings; dreadful, hideous, shocking, frightful, awful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > emotion compounded of fear and loathing > [adjective] horrible1303 horrid1602 nameless1611 shockinga1704 shocking1703 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] atelOE grislya1150 atelichc1175 grisfula1300 ugly13.. hideous1303 horrible1303 ghastlyc1305 stout1338 horrendc1420 ugsomec1425 grisilc1440 execrable1490 uggle1499 horrious?1520 uglisome1530 ugglesome1561 gruesome1570 grisy1590 gashfulc1600 horrid1602 ghast1622 gashly1627 horrific1653 horrendous1661 horrorous1756 horrifying1791 horrorish1847 grauly1848 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4472 So grete hyt was and so orryble. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 43 Ane greate zenne, dyadlich, and orrible. c1375 XI Pains Hell 201 in Old Eng. Misc. 217 Orebil wormys devouryd hem þere. 14.. MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48 lf. 45 (Halliw.) Fendis led hir with arrable song. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 302 Thanne moot I dye of sodeyn deth horrible [v.r. orrible]. 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 397 a/1 He made the horryblest crye that myght be herde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvii. 5 It geueth an horrible sownde, when God sendeth out his voyce. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 152 That orabill wes to euerie Cristin man. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 35 Bitter and horrible thinges destroye the appetite. 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. D2 The horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 61 A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great Furnace flam'd. View more context for this quotation 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions iv. 30 An Apparition and a horrible Monster in the Night. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 343 It is horrible—yes, that is the word—to look forward to another year of disease and darkness. 1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 62 Superb instances of terrible beauty undeformed by horrible detail. b. as a strong intensive (now colloquial): Excessive, immoderate. (Primarily of things objectionable, but often without such qualification. Cf. awful adj., dreadful adj., adv., and n., frightful adj., tremendous adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > very great or extreme strangec1380 overpassinga1382 passinga1387 most?c1430 extremec1460 horriblea1464 violenta1500 mainc1540 immortal?c1550 exquisite1552 sore1555 three-piled1598 thundering1618 devilish1639 shrewda1643 deadly1660 woundy1681 vast1696 monstrous1711 mortal1716 terrific1743 hell-fired1754 hellish1764 colossal1794 severe1805 awful1818 all-fired1829 terrible1829 quare and1847 ferocious1877 pluperfect1889 raging1889 giddy1896 utter1898 stiff1905 a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 121 Þe kyng of Frauns [was] take prisoner be þe soudan and raunsond to a horibil summe. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) vii. 28 Suche an horryble and dysmesurable a strok. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xvi. sig. D.iii^v [Solomon] multiplying wyues to an horrible noumber. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 178 [He] ranne his head at the wall with such a horrible force as he therewith dash'd out his braines. 1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 33 I cannot get rid of my horrible cold heere. 1676 W. Temple Let. to Charles II in Wks. (1731) II. 423 They had a horrible mind to the Peace. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 403 This Letter is of a horrible length. c. In combination (parasynthetic). ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Horrible sowned, or voyced, horrisonus, horriuocus. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 325 Horrible shaped Animals. B. n. A horrible person or thing; †a being inspiring awe or dread (quot. c1475 at sense C.); a horrible attribute or characteristic; a story of horrible crime or the like (cf. dreadful n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being awesome > [noun] > object or cause inspiring awe horriblec1540 dread1590 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] > object or cause of > being horriblec1540 the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun] horribility13.. abominationc1384 Satan?a1513 abhorring1550 ugliness1587 vomit1612 loathing-stock1622 abhorrency1645 abhorrence1650 nausea1654 odium1681 abominablea1687 horrible1726 detestation1728 poison1875 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [noun] > person or thing which inspires horror horrible1726 monstrous1742 horrification1801 thing1822 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13260 An old temple..I founde, Of a god, þat with gomes was gretly honouret. At þat orribill I asket angardly myche, Of dethe, & of deire, as destyny willes. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vi. 265 Among all the Horribles that we dress up Satan in. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxix. 188 Such a waggish leering as lurks in all you horribles! 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Sept. 7/2 Those children of this world, the writers of ‘penny-dreadfuls’ and ‘halfpenny horribles’. 1899 F. H. Dood in Daily News 13 June 8/5 ‘Penny horribles’ always have a public, though it is questionable if dime novels are now so prominent as they once were. 1909 Daily Chron. 3 Sept. 1/6 Both boys said yesterday that they had been reading ‘penny horribles’ about burglaries. 1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow i. 51 There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible. C. adv. Horribly, terribly; usually as a mere intensive = Exceedingly (cf. horribly adv.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 24 Þei curse more souare & horribelare hem þat þei hatun. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiii. 496 By cause of the grete stone that was at his necke, whiche was horryble hevy. 1513 Queen Katherine Let. 13 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 83 I am horrible besy with making standerds, banners, and bagies. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 3 Glost. Me thinks the ground is euen. Edg. Horrible steepe. View more context for this quotation 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. F4^v Shee has a horrible high colour indeed. 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case ii. iii I am horrible angry. 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin v. 84 Her Den groan'd horrible. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 91 A far horribler composed Cant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.1303
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