HORRENDOUS

awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

horrendous (comparative more horrendous, superlative most horrendous)

Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

Synonyms

• awful, horrific, terrible, dreadful

Trivia

One of four common words ending in -dous, which are hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

Source: Wiktionary


Hor*ren"dous, a. Etym: [L. horrendus.]

Definition: Fearful; frightful. [Obs.] I. Watts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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