Horrible
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What is the difference between horrible, horrific and horrendous?
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Horrific is the most emphatic of the three: It was a horrific accident: 15 people in 7 vehicles were killed. Horrible is less emphatic: I feel horrible today: I have the flu, I lost my job, I broke up with my girl, and I failed two exams. Horrendous is rather melodramatic: It was a horrendous waste of talent to assign him to the mail sorting room.
- Horrific is the most emphatic of the three: It was a horrific accident: 15 people in 7 vehicles were killed.
- Horrible is less emphatic: I feel horrible today: I have the flu, I lost my job, I broke up with my girl, and I failed two exams.
- Horrendous is rather melodramatic: It was a horrendous waste of talent to assign him to the mail sorting room.
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Horrific is the most emphatic of the three:
It was a horrific accident: 15 people in 7 vehicles were killed.
Horrible is less emphatic:
I feel horrible today: I have the flu, I lost my job, I broke up with my girl, and I failed two exams.
Horrendous is rather melodramatic:
It was a horrendous waste of talent to assign him to the mail sor
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