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horrendous

/həˈɹɛndəs/

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dated/əˈɹɛndəs/

horrendous adjective: extremely bad; awful; terrible.

Adjective

horrendous (comparative more horrendous, superlative most horrendous)

  1. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
    • There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.
    • My journey to work this morning was horrendous!

horrendous meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

horrendous in Urdu

دہشت ناک, ہیبت ناک, ہولناک, خوفناک

horrendous in Bengali

ভয়াবহ, বীভৎস, অত্যন্ত খারাপ

horrendous in Malayalam

horrible, terrible, dreadful
ഭയങ്കരമായ, ഘോരം, ദാരുണമായ, ഭയാനകമായ, ഞെട്ടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ഭീകരം

Examples of horrendous in a sentence

  • Up next we're going to hear from some victims of this horrendous crime.
  • Nursing is a vocation that many people find horrendous.
  • "I got the Wordle in four!" writes one friend; "Couldn't solve the Wordle, down horrendous" tweets another.

All 17 example sentences with horrendous

Synonyms of horrendous

Forms of horrendous

comparativemore horrendous
superlativemost horrendous

Origin of horrendous

Borrowed from Latin horrendus, future passive participle (gerundive) of horreō (“to dread”) + -ous.

Words formed from horrendous

Words that rhyme with horrendous

Questions about horrendous

What does horrendous mean?
Horrendous means extremely bad; awful; terrible.
What is horrendous in Urdu?
Horrendous in Urdu is دہشت ناک, ہیبت ناک, ہولناک. See Horrendous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is horrendous?
Horrendous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce horrendous?
Horrendous is pronounced /həˈɹɛndəs/.

Words near horrendous in the dictionary

  1. Horqin
  2. Horr
  3. Horrabridge
  4. Horrell
  5. Horrells
  6. horrendous
  7. horrendously
  8. horrendousness
  9. horrent
  10. horribile auditu
  11. horribile dictu

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: horrendous (page history and authors); horrendous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Horrendous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horrendous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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