horrendous
[haw-ren-duhs, ho-]
- shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
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Origin of horrendous
1650–60; < Latin horrendus dreadful, to be feared (gerund of horrēre to bristle, shudder), equivalent to horr- (akin to hirsute) + -endus gerund suffix
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The hatchet job quickly went viral, with the twitterverse agreeing that it was terribly funny and horrendously mean.
To be fair, the problem that had to be addressed was horrendously complex.
horrendous
- another word for horrific
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin horrendus fearful, from horrēre to bristle, shudder, tremble; see horror
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Word Origin and History for horrendously
horrendous
adj.
1650s, from Latin horrendus "dreadful, fearful, terrible," literally "to be shuddered at," gerundive of horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Earlier form in English was horrend (mid-15c.).
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