horrendously
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5.5
- adverb
- /həˈrɛndəsli/
:
horrendamente
- Good luck, P-zed: you have a horrendously difficult task in front of you.
- horrendously expensive
- horrendously wrong
- horrendously difficult
And you're right, anyone is probably going to be horrendously wrong.
- And you're right, anyone is probably going to be horrendously wrong.
- And I was filming the process and Oh my goodness, those videos are horrendously cringy.
- And then when the, when the debt crisis happens and it hits, it's, you know, horrendously bad.
- In fact, you know, again, I'm not an advocate for the massive and I think horrendously overdone use of medications.
- Something that has gone horrendously wrong in most countries around the world is the staggering increase in cancer incidents and deaths.
- And so we we are horrendously bad at not only identifying what works well with us, but then making the selection.
- The comments section is down horrendously.
Examples
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We all grew up doing these horrendously dangerous things in our pre-seatbelt childhoods.
Fiction book (2000) -
Something that has gone horrendously wrong in most countries around the world is the staggering increase in cancer incidents and deaths.
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Do any of you feel this is horrendously wrong?
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And I felt horrendously guilty because I felt like I knew.
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At the moment, the oil market is horrendously tight, at least in terms of light crude and refined products.
Blog text (22) -
Apparently, the planning paradox states that people will horrendously underestimate how long it will take them to do something in the future.
Blog text (4) -
He knew then that things were terribly wrong, that he had horrendously misjudged his situation.
Fiction book (2001) -
What really drives me crazy, though, is that so many other artisans underprice their work horrendously.
Blog text (1) -
The fiscal realities of the second decade of the 21st century are horrendously worse than those of the sixth decade of the 20th.
Blog text (20) -
The service at the restaurant was horrendously slow, making our wait unbearable.
Synonyms
456
1.0
To a great degree
378
1.0
In a very bad way
126
3.5
In a very bad or shocking way
70
3.0
To happen in a very bad or unpleasant way
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6.5
In a way that is very bad or not good enough
18
4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
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5.5
In a very ugly or shocking way
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4.9
So strong or bad that you cannot stand it
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8.2
In an extremely bad and obvious way that shocks people
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6.8
Makes people feel shocked or disgusted
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6.8
In a very cruel and shocking way
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7.0
In a very bad way that shows poor quality or failure
3
6.0
In a way that is very shocking or frightening
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6.7
In a way that makes people feel very afraid or shocked
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8.2
In a very rude and cruel way
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8.8
In a very intense and unpleasant way
1
7.0
In a very bad and unpleasant way
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7.4
In a very bad or shocking way
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8.1
In a way that makes something very bad or annoying
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8.8
In a way that is very bad or annoying
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7.9
In a very bad, shameful way that deserves strong criticism
1
7.5
It happens in a very unpleasant and frightening way
In a way that is very bad or annoying
In a very annoying and unpleasant way
Antonyms
How Badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
horrendously = horrendous (transparent) = horrend + ly
The adverb 'horrendously' is transparently derived from the adjective 'horrendous' by adding the suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
The word horrendously comes from horrendous, which comes from the root horr- meaning 'to shudder' and is the same root as horror. So, to say something is horrendously bad is to say it is so shocking or terrible that it makes you 'shudder'.