Horrendous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Horrendous \Hor*ren"dous\, a. [L. horrendus.]
     Fearful; frightful. [Obs.] --I. Watts.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  horrendous
       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" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded},
              {dreadful}, {fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrific},
              {terrible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "horrendous":
     appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful,
     baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell,
     formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous,
     horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, macabre, morbid,
     redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific,
     tragic, tremendous, unspeakable