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horrendous, a.|hɒˈrɛndəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous: cf. tremendous, stupendous.]
Fitted to excite horror; terrible, dreadful, horrible.
1659Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 399 Your horrendous Sacriledges the like whereof was never committed. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 15 Damnings most dreadfull..Execrations horrendous, Blasphemies stupendous. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. App. (1852) 100 The preservation of the town from horrendous earthquakes. 1897Blackw. Mag. May 675 A man alone..could compass an effect so horrendous. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) vi. 97 The effect on the family of this drastic change in their financial status was horrendous. 1963Daily Tel. 31 July 10/2 Blackmail and horrendous tales of Western avengers on their heels are probably as effective instruments as any. 1972Nature 28 Apr. 434/2 Elsewhere there are horrendous accounts of how organochlorine pesticides contaminating food have killed large numbers of people. |