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- Dictionaryhorrendous/hɒˈrɛndəs/
adjective
- 1. extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible: "she suffered horrendous injuries"
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extremely unpleasant or bad: a horrendous accident / tragedy / crime. horrendous suffering / damage. Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous. horrendous loss The firm made horrendous (= very big) losses last year. Synonyms. abominable. abysmal (BAD) atrocious (VERY BAD) awful (BAD) dire mainly UK informal. dreadful (FRIGHTENING)
The meaning of HORRENDOUS is extremely bad or unpleasant : horrible, dreadful. How to use horrendous in a sentence.
Horrendous is perhaps most popularly used to simply mean “really bad,” in much the same way that horrible, terrible, and awful are often used, as in I had a horrendous time at that party—no one would talk to me!
Bad luck, an injury, a mistake, an unfortunate outfit, or a crime — anything can be called horrendous if it causes such dread or fear that you can barely even think about it.
Define horrendous. horrendous synonyms, horrendous pronunciation, horrendous translation, English dictionary definition of horrendous. adj. Hideous; dreadful: "Horrendous explosions shook the whole city" . hor·ren′dous·ly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth...
extremely unpleasant or bad: a horrendous accident / tragedy / crime. horrendous suffering / damage. Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous. horrendous loss The firm made horrendous (= very big) losses last year. Synonyms. abominable. abysmal (BAD) atrocious (VERY BAD) awful (BAD) dire mainly UK informal. dreadful (FRIGHTENING)
1. adjective. Something that is horrendous is very unpleasant or shocking. He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life. Synonyms: horrific, shocking [informal], appalling, frightening More Synonyms of horrendous. 2. adjective.
Definition of horrendous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
extremely unpleasant or bad: She suffered horrendous injuries in the accident. horrendously. adverb. extremely or extremely badly: horrendously expensive. (Definition of horrendous from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of horrendous. in Chinese (Traditional) 極糟的, 可怕的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified)
Extremely bad; awful; terrible. Wiktionary. Synonyms: horrible. frightful. fearful. shocking. ghastly. terrible. dreadful. awful. appalling. fearsome. horrific. frightening. dreaded. direful. Origin of Horrendous. From Latin horrendus from gerundive of horrēre to tremble. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
