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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: horrendus, from horrere; HORROR

horrendous

 adjective
     
hor‧ren‧dous
1 frightening and terrible [= horrific]:
a horrendous experience
She suffered horrendous injuries.
2 informal extremely unreasonable or unpleasant:
horrendous debts
The traffic was horrendous.
—horrendously adverb
WORD FOCUS: bad WORD FOCUS: bad
very bad: awful, terrible, horrible, lousy informal, appalling, ghastly, atrocious, horrendous
bad, but not very bad: not very good, mediocre, second-rate, so-so, lacklustre
of bad quality: shoddy, inferior, poor quality, cheap, crummy informal
bad at doing something: be no good at something
very bad at doing something: hopeless, terrible, useless, lousy informal, incompetent
morally bad: evil, wicked, immoral, corrupt, sick, perverted, degenerate

➔ See also bad
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