Horrible vs Shitty - What's the difference?
horrible | shitty |
A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby Dick
* 1982 , United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
* 1991 , Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
* 2000 , John Dean,
* 2001 , Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
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*: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.
*, comment=The New Yorker, March 19
, passage=Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.}}
*, author=(Ray Bradbury)
, passage=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.}}
Tremendously wrong or errant.
*{{quote-book, year=1933, title=(My Life and Hard Times), author=(James Thurber)
, passage=Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.}}
(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.
* 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground'', '' ,
* 2006 , , Nirvana: The True Story , 2009,
* 2011 , Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires ,
(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
(British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.
(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
As adjectives the difference between horrible and shitty
is that horrible is causing horror; terrible; shocking while shitty is (vulgar|colloquial) very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.As a noun horrible
is a thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.horrible
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
CNN interview, January 21, 2000:
- 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.
Adjective
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shitty
English
Adjective
(er)- The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.
- I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.
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- It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.
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- The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.
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- Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.
- Don't get shitty at me!