horrendous

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  1. adjective Hideous; dreadful: "Horrendous explosions shook the whole city” (Howard Kaplan).

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  • The devastation was horrendous, the valley floor fast blackening with the writhing forms of dying newts. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • The boat trip to Crete was horrendous, the sea being very high and rough. —  The Historian
  • The rumbling became horrendous, and a great ugly crack of a vent opened along the side of the cone. —  Harpy Thyme
  • Often these failures were horrendous, as in his second case study, Mao's Great Leap Forward and the millions it left dead in its wake. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
  • The sound was horrendous, alcohol and Sterno fumes igniting and glass whickering through the air. —  Hunter, Healer [Sequel to The Society] - Lilith Saintcrow
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  1. From Latin horrendus, from gerundive of horrēre, to tremble.

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  1. = Old French horrende = Italian orrendo, from Latin horrendus, fearful, terrible, ger. of horrere, tremble with fright: see horrent, horrid.
 

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