Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sounding dreadfully; uttering or emitting a terrible sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Examples
“The horrisonous whiz of the ostrich eggs from Kamfers Dam was heard again, and back to the "Lift" flew the ladies.”
“Service -- that the hundred thousand ears adorning the anatomy of the human population were first shocked by the horrisonous banshee wail of the hooters.”
“Then did the mother's rage burst forth without restraint, eloquent, horrisonous.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘horrisonous’.
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Logolepsy
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Descriptions of Sound
jingling, gurgling, horrisonous, horrisonant, crepitant, screeching, ringing, sonorous, clamorous, rattling, roaring, breathy and 71 more...
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noctilucent, noctilucin, noctilucous, noctua, noctuid, globular, glout, gomuti, gossypium, goura, gourami, goulash and 25 more...
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