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Horrendous

//həˈɹɛndəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

    "There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash."

Adjective
  1. 1
    causing fear or dread or terror wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horrendus, future passive participle (gerundive) of horreō (“I dread”) + -ous.

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