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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 popularly used to mean extremely bad—awful, dreadful, or horrible. It can also mean literally causing horror—horrifying or horrific, as in horrendous violence. Example: If you’re wondering what cake tastes like when you accidentally use salt instead of sugar, it’s horrendous—completely disgusting and inedible.
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.
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)
terrible or extremely unpleasant synonym horrific, horrifying. She had sustained horrendous injuries. The police officer said the attack was the most horrendous he had ever seen. The conditions in the camp were absolutely horrendous. Want to learn more?
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.
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.
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)
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.
