horrible

«horrible» in Mova's school dictionary: Very bad or unpleasant: «a horrible smell», «horrible… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (horrible, more horrible, most horrible)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very bad or unpleasant: «a horrible smell», «horrible weather». tree →

2) Unkind or nasty: «He was horrible to me». tree →

3) Very frightening or shocking. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories: a horrible villain, a horrible monster, a horrible mistake. In everyday life children say «horrible» for anything they dislike. In lessons on kindness: being horrible to others hurts them. Adverb: horribly («horribly wrong»). Similar: awful, terrible, dreadful, nasty.

examples

• The medicine tasted horrible. tree →
• We had horrible weather on holiday. tree →
• Don't be horrible to your sister! tree →
• The witch had a horrible laugh. tree →
• I had a horrible dream last night. tree →
• The rubbish bin smells horrible. tree →
• The plan went horribly wrong. tree →

note

Use «more horrible» or «most horrible», not «horribler». Spelling: «-ible», not «-able». Adverb: horribly. «Horrid» is a softer, more childish word with a similar meaning.

In the corpora

• But Josh saw the boy's face and felt horrible, and the boy didn't come to his party.
• «You lot are horrible,» he said, crying and laughing, and hugged everyone.
• She's being horrible.» Insults are often lies.
• It was horrible and it's not true.» She accepts.
• Sam's dad's old school bully found him on Facebook twenty years on: «I was horrible to you.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «horrible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.