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say it: HAW-ruh-buhl
horrible is an adjective meaning "provoking horror". It carries one recorded sense.
provoking horror
“an atrocious automobile accident”
“a frightful crime of decapitation”
“an alarming, even horrifying, picture”
“war is beyond all words horrible”
“an ugly wound”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for horrible come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.