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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Horrible \Hor"ri*ble\, adjective [OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See {Horror}.] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
A dungeon horrible on all sides round. --Milton.
Syn: Dreadful; frightful; fearful; terrible; awful; terrific; shocking; hideous; horrid.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
horrible
adjective: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful}, {horrifying}, {ugly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "horrible": abhorrent, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, deadly, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disagreeable, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fearful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, repellent, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rousing, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, squalid, terrible, terrific, terrifying, thumping, too bad, tragic, tremendous, unclean, unpleasant, unspeakable, vile, villainous, whacking, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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