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# horrible

«horrible» in Mova's judaism 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#m1)

2) Unkind or nasty: «He was horrible to me». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#m2)

3) Very frightening or shocking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Shocking and terrible because it is a great wrong, especially turning away from God. Interpretation: The prophets use the word for Israel's worship of idols. They see it as something that should shock the whole world. In the primary 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

- An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land: (Prophets JER.5.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x1)
- In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled. (Prophets HOS.6.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x2)
- Therefore thus saith the LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. (Prophets JER.18.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x3)
- The medicine tasted horrible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x4)
- We had horrible weather on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x5)
- Don't be horrible to your sister! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x6)
- The witch had a horrible laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x7)
- I had a horrible dream last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x8)
- The rubbish bin smells horrible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x9)
- The plan went horribly wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/#x10)

### 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

- [An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.167/)
- [In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.84/)
- [But Josh saw the boy's face and felt horrible, and the boy didn't come to his party.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/7/)
- [«You lot are horrible,» he said, crying and laughing, and hugged everyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/28/)
- [She's being horrible.» Insults are often lies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horrible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/horrible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.