Usually means: Extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible.
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  1. horrendous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. horrendous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horrendous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horrendous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horrendous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horrendous, horrendous: Wordnik
  7. horrendous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. horrendous: Wiktionary
  9. horrendous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. horrendous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. horrendous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Horrendous, horrendous: Dictionary.com
  13. horrendous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. horrendous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Horrendous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Horrendous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. horrendous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. horrendous: Rhymezone
  19. Horrendous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. horrendous: Free Dictionary
  21. horrendous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. horrendous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horrendous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horrendous: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horrendous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

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