horrendous

hor·ren·dous  (hô-rnds, h-)

adj.

Hideous; dreadful: "Horrendous explosions shook the whole city" (Howard Kaplan).

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[From Latin horrendus, from gerundive of horrre, to tremble.]

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hor·rendous·ly adv.

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horrendous [hɒˈrɛndəs]

adj

another word for horrific

[from Latin horrendus fearful, from horrēre to bristle, shudder, tremble; see horror]

horrendously  adv

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horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid - In decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid.

See also related terms for horror.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

horrendous - causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, terrible, horrific, awful, dire, fearful alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

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horrendous

adjective

1. horrific, shocking, appalling, frightening, awful, terrifying, grim, dreadful, horrifying, ghastly, grisly, frightful, hellacious (U.S. slang) The violence used was horrendous.

2. (Informal) enormous, huge, massive, colossal, astronomic horrendous debts

Translations

horrendous [hɒˈrendəs] ADJ

1. (= horrific) [injury, attack, accident] → horrible, horrendo

2. (= dreadful) [weather, traffic] → horroroso, espantoso; [cost, price] → tremendo
the company suffered horrendous losses → la compañía sufrió enormes pérdidas

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horrendous [həˈrɛndəs] adj → épouvantable, affreux/euse

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horrendous

adj

(= horrific) accident, injury, war, experience → entsetzlich, grauenhaft; crime, attack, violence → entsetzlich, abscheulich

(inf: = dreadful) conditions, traffic → fürchterlich (inf); loss, cost, price, stupidity → horrend; children’s shoes are a horrendous price → Kinderschuhe sind horrend teuer

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horrendous [hɒˈrɛndəs] n → orrendo/a

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