horrendo

adj.

horrible, terrible, dreadful, horrifying.

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horrendo

► adjetivo

1 horrible, horrifying, awful, frightful

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ADJ

1) (=aterrador) [crimen] horrific, ghastly *

2) (=horrible) [ropa, zapatos] hideous, ghastly *; [película, libro] dreadful; [frío, calor] terrible, dreadful, awful

tengo un hambre horrendo — I'm terribly hungry

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-da adjetivo horroroso

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= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.

Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.

Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.

Ex. If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.

Ex. The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.

Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.

Ex. In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.

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-da adjetivo horroroso

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= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.

Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.

Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.

Ex: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.

Ex: The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.

Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.

Ex: In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.

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horrendo -da

adjective

horroroso

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horrendo

◊ -da adjetivo See Also→ horroroso

'horrendo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
horrendo-a
- infierno
English:
eyewitness
- harrowing
- horrendous
- horrific
- ghastly
- hideous
- horrifying

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horrendo = horroroso

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horrendo

adj horrendous

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horrendo, -da adj

: horrendous, horrible