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Adjective: horrible  hor-u-bul or hór-u-bul [N. Amer], hó-ru-bul [Brit]
  1. Provoking horror
    "war is beyond all words horrible";
    - atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly
     
  2. [informal] Very unpleasant
    "horrible weather";
    - beastly [informal], hellish [informal], god-awful [informal], hellacious [N. Amer, informal]
     
  3. Exceptionally bad or displeasing
    "horrible taste";
    - atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable

See also: alarming, bad, unpleasant

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