horrendous
extremely bad
TRANSLATION
horrendous= entsetzlich, fürchterlich (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX horrendous: approximately 2,500,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
While many Chinese are now joining the middle class, millions are slipping into a new underclass of displaced peasants, unemployed factory workers, and low-level laborers whose working conditions are HORRENDOUS and whose wages barely sustain them.
(Business Week magazine)
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In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both HORRENDOUS mistakes and glorious celebrations.
- Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
(Business Week magazine)
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In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both HORRENDOUS mistakes and glorious celebrations.
- Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan
Did you
know?
horrendous
adjective
- extremely unpleasant or horrifying
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: from the Latin horrendus (to be shuddered at), gerundive of horrere (to bristle with fear, to shudder)
Horrendous is a very powerful word, which is why writers like to use it to get our attention. Here’s an example book title: "Elephants in your mailbox; how I learned the secrets of mail-order marketing despite having made 25 horrendous mistakes. Ed. by A.C. Greene"
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SYNONYMS
abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
beautiful, good, nice, pleasing
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I’m not ever going back to that restaurant, the service was horrendous."
adjective
- extremely unpleasant or horrifying
(Compact Oxford Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: from the Latin horrendus (to be shuddered at), gerundive of horrere (to bristle with fear, to shudder)
Horrendous is a very powerful word, which is why writers like to use it to get our attention. Here’s an example book title: "Elephants in your mailbox; how I learned the secrets of mail-order marketing despite having made 25 horrendous mistakes. Ed. by A.C. Greene"
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SYNONYMS
abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
beautiful, good, nice, pleasing
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I’m not ever going back to that restaurant, the service was horrendous."
