Horrendous

Definition: Horrendous

Horrendous

Adjective

1. 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 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "horrendous" was first used: 1659. (references)

Etymology: Horrendous \Hor*ren"dous\, adjective. [Latin expression horrendus.]. (references)

Synonyms: Horrendous

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Horrendous Death and Health: Towards Action (Series in Death Education, Aging and Health Care) (reference)

• Horrendous Death, Health, and Well-Being (reference)

• Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) (reference)

• The Horrendous Hullabaloo (reference)

• Through the Cracks: Horrendous Child Abuse and Murder (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Some Horrendous Joke (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Chinese 

可怕 (Awful, Dire, Fearful, Fearsome, frightful, Grewsome, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horrific, macaber, macabre, redoubtable, scary, terrible). (various references)

Czech

hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, ignoble, ignominious, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, terrible, terrific, unholy, unspeakable, villainous, weird), ohavný (abominable, despicable, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, hideous, horrid, odious, ugly, unspeakable, vile, villainous). (various references)

Farsi 

مهیب (Grisly, Gruesome, Hideous, Horrible, Horrid, Macabre, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), ترسناک وحشت اور, دهشتناک . (various references)

German

horrend (horrendously, horrific, redoubtable). (various references)

Greek 

φρικιαστικόσ (grisly, hideous, horrific). (various references)

Hungarian

rettentő (astounding, formidable, redoubtable, scary), iszonyú (horrible, terrific), borzasztó (astounding, awful, dreadful, fearsome, god-awful, gruesome, horrible, terrible, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Indonesian

menghebohkan (cause a commotion, sensational). (various references)

Italian

orrendo (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, nasty, revolting, terrible). (various references)

Korean 

쯤찍한. (various references)

Pig Latin

orrendoushay.(various references)

Romanian

groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, mad, monstrous, outrageous, severe, terrible, utter, uttermost). (various references)

Russian 

ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

grozan (atrocious, awful, creepy, dire, direful, ghastly, grisly, lurid, macabre, plaguy, terrible). (various references)

Spanish

horrendo (dire, fearful, frightful, harrowing, horrid, horrific). (various references)

Swedish

förskräcklig (abysmal, apalling, appalling, desperate, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightful, gruesome, horrible, shocking, terrible, tremendous, unholy). (various references)

Thai

น่ากลัว (awful, eerie, fearsome, gruesome, hideous, horrid, horrific). (various references)

Turkish

korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), dehşetli (dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, frightful, terrifying), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references)

Ukrainian

страхітливий (appalling, frightful, horrific, prodigious, unnatural, whopping). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kinh khủng (desperate, direful, formidable, horrible, horrid, horrific, tremendous), khủng khiếp (blood-curdling, frightful, horrific, lurid, macabre, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

horrendus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "horrendous": horrendously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Horrendous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: horendous, horrendeous, horrendus, ordenours. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: honourers.

-2 letters: endorsor, enshroud, honorers, honoured, honourer, hounders, rondures, rounders, unhorsed.

-3 letters: dehorns, droners, enduros, honored, honorer, honours, hounder, onerous, onshore, ordures, resound, rondure, rounder, sounder, undoers, unhoods, unhorse.

-4 letters: dehorn, donors, dorser, dourer, douser, droner, drones, enduro, herons, honers, honors, honour, hordes, horned, horsed, hounds, housed, houser, nodose, nodous, noosed, nooser, noshed, nosher.

+2 letters: horrendously.

+3 letters: overnourished.