horrendously
/həˈɹɛndəsli/
horrendously adverb: in a horrendous manner.
Adverb
horrendously (comparative more horrendously, superlative most horrendously)
- In a horrendous manner.
- The car handled horrendously when I took it for a test drive.
- Mean-times, spelling and pronunciation are horrendously uncircumvoluted and the English vocabulary simply oozes with unloquaciousness. Irregardless of whether I say “wreck a nice beach” or “recognize speech,” you know what I mean, unless I say it too fast.2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN
Forms of horrendously
| comparative | more horrendously |
|---|---|
| superlative | most horrendously |
Origin of horrendously
From horrendous + -ly.
Questions about horrendously
- What does horrendously mean?
- Horrendously means in a horrendous manner.
- What part of speech is horrendously?
- Horrendously is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce horrendously?
- Horrendously is pronounced /həˈɹɛndəsli/.
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