horrible

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HOR'RIBLE, adjective [Latin horribilis. See Horror.] Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as a horrible figure or sight; a horrible story. A dungeon horrible on all sides round.
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