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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)
: extremely bad or unpleasant : horrible, dreadful. His audition was horrendous. horrendous crimes. horrendously adverb. Synonyms. alarming. direful. dreadful. fearful. fearsome. forbidding. formidable. frightening. frightful. ghastly. hair-raising. horrible. horrifying. intimidating. redoubtable. scary. shocking. spine-chilling. terrible.
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.
Horrendous definition: shockingly dreadful; horrible. See examples of HORRENDOUS used in a sentence.
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)
Some people use horrendous to describe something that is so big or great that they find it extremely unpleasant. [informal] Nor do their debts looks so horrendous when related to the value of their fixed assets. ...the usually horrendous traffic jams.
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...
