Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(adj)

   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"

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1. horrendous(Adjective)

   Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

Origin: From Latin horrendus, future participle of horrere.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Horrendous(adj)

   fearful; frightful

Origin: [L. horrendus.]

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of horrendous in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of horrendous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Mitchelle Blair:

   As horrendous as everybody thinks I am -- that's fine.

2. Redmond Burke:

   It's massive trauma to a baby -- it's just horrendous.

3. Mark Bowden:

   However, the brutal murder of this woman is an unspeakably horrendous act.

4. Producer Emma Taylor:

   We could not touch it. The (written) material that came in was horrendous.

5. David Whiston:

   For the most part, the market’s view is that things will be horrendous in Venezuela for quite a while.

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