Plural of horrible

Forms of horrible

Horribles in a sentence

• A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations...
• The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
• If it does not appeal to you as one of the horribles in life, try it once.2005, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot, page 125. From the entry horribles
• For all the horribles that his legs and feet endured, they weren't the root cause of his suffering.2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, page 240. From the entry horribles
• The majority trotted out a parade of horribles in which judicial line-drawing concerning accommodation would displace legitimate democratic choices.1992, Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard Allen Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein, The Bill of Rights in the Modern State, page 356. From the entry parade of horribles

Meaning of horrible

1. noun A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
2. noun A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
3. adjective Causing horror; terrible; shocking.

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Questions about the plural of horrible

What is the plural of horrible?

The plural of horrible is horribles.

Is horrible countable?

Horrible is a countable noun.