Definitions for horrendous

horrendous hor·ren·dous

Spelling: [haw-ren-duh s, ho-]
IPA: /hɔˈrɛn dəs, hɒ-/

Horrendous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 423 anagrams from letters in horrendous (dehnoorrsu).

Definitions for horrendous

adjective

  1. shockingly dreadful; horrible:

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

Examples for horrendous

It takes just as long to fly to Miami, he ponders, as it does to navigate the horrendous traffic on the Long Island Expressway.

It was horrendous, because what the temperature of that water does to your pride… Stone: …and Prejudice.

My religion did not allow me to be quiet about these horrendous crimes that I have seen.

Like some horrendous, watchful gargoyle, the Nipe crouched motionlessly on the shadowed roof of the low building.

It was the most horrendous campaign, for sheer concentration, that had ever battered at the public mind.

The horrendous act of Jacob Miller, therefore, created a sensation.

And when you peacefully protest their stereotyping of you, they lash back at you and they call you horrendous, horrific names.

But a man alone, or at any rate a member of the human race alone, could compass an effect so horrendous.

As he shook he gave tone, emitting a most horrendous yell of pain and rage.

Even when bred in captivity, Leahy said breeding facilities are often horrendous, resembling factory farming.

Word Value for horrendous
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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