horrible

Meanings

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.

1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
2. Tremendously bad.

Etymology

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).