Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈhɒɹɪbəl/
  • New York:
    • IPA: /ˈhɑɹɪbəl/
  • Philadelphia:
    • IPA: /ˈhɑɹɪbəl/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈhɔɹəbəl/, /ˈhɒɹəbəl/, [-bəɫ]
Översättning
Substantiv
1.korkunç
2.berbat
Adjektiv
3.korkunç

Definitioner

Substantiv

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

Adjektiv

  1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  2. Tremendously wrong or errant.

Exempel

  • Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
  • A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
  • The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
  • I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
  • Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
  • 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 all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
  • Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.
  • Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Böjningsformer

Pluralhorribles
Komparativmore horrible
Komparativhorribler
Superlativmost horrible
Superlativhorriblest