horrendously

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/həˈɹɛndəsli/

adverb

In a horrendous manner.

“The car handled horrendously when I took it for a test drive.”

UncommonScrabble 19

Meanings

adverbhorrendously (comparative more horrendously, superlative most horrendously)

comparative more horrendously · superlative most horrendously

  1. In a horrendous manner.

    The car handled horrendously when I took it for a test drive.

    1 more example

    Mean-times, spelling and pronunciation are horrendously uncircumvoluted and the English vocabulary simply oozes with unloquaciousness. Irregardless of whether I say “wreck a nice beach” or “recognize speech,” you know what I mean, unless I say it too fast.

    2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN

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APA

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MLA

“horrendously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horrendously. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “horrendously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horrendously.

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