hor‧ren‧dous /hɒˈrendəs, hə- $ hɑː-, hɔː-/
adjective[
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Latin;
Origin: horrendus, from horrere; ⇒ horror]
1. frightening and terrible
Synonym : horrific:
a horrendous experience She suffered horrendous injuries.2. informal extremely unreasonable or unpleasant:
horrendous debts The traffic was horrendous.—horrendously adverb [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲