Word Study
horrendous
OXFORD DICTIONARY
horrendous, adj. horrifying.
Derivative
horrendously adv. horrendousness n.
Etymology
L horrendus gerundive of horrere: see HORRID
THESAURUS
horrendous
appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, macabre, morbid, redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, unspeakableFor further exploring for "horrendous" in Webster Dictionary Online