Antonyms for horrendous
həˈrɛn dəshor·ren·dous

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1. horrendousadjective

   Synonyms:
   terrible, horrific, awful

2. horrendousadjective

   Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

   Synonyms:
   terrible, awful, horrific

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1. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

   causing fear or dread or terror

   "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. believe

   accept as true; take to be true

   "we didn't believe his stories from the war"

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use horrendous in a sentence?

1. Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez:

   Whether you have children or not, you're impacted by young lives that are placed in such a horrendous situation.

2. Richard Bienvenue:

   The kids in my classes were from some pretty horrendous situations: dysfunction at homes, foster care, and abuse, the tears you would see, the anguish they would go through, I saw a real need.

3. Richard Gere:

   Now the first thought that came to me was, I wondered if Deng Xiaoping is actually watching this right now, with his children and his grandchildren, and with the knowledge that what a horrendous, horrendous human rights situation there is in China— not only towards their own people but to Tibet as well.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   We're living in a world since Citizens United where multi-millionaires and billionaires are playing a horrendous role in the political system, that's why I believe that we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

5. Paul Caneiro attorneys:

   Paul's family means more to him than anything else in the world, there is absolutely no reason in the world for Keith Caneiros to have committed the crimes Keith Caneiros is alleged to have committed. Keith Caneiros would never hurt any member of Keith Caneiros family. The process today can begin for a search for the truth and who committed these horrendous acts.

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