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'orrible

'orrible is the pronunciation spelling of horrible.

Meaning of horrible

Adjective

horrible (comparative horribler or more horrible, superlative horriblest or most horrible)

  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...1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  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.2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599

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Forms of 'orrible

comparativemore 'orrible
superlativemost 'orrible

Origin of 'orrible

A representation of the pronunciation of horrible by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).

Questions about 'orrible

What is 'orrible the pronunciation spelling of?
'orrible is the pronunciation spelling of horrible.

Words near 'orrible in the dictionary

  1. 'onours
  2. 'ooligan
  3. 'ooman
  4. 'oomen
  5. 'ope
  6. 'orrible
  7. 'orribly
  8. 'orrid
  9. 'orse
  10. 'orses
  11. 'ospital

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