Main entry: horrendous, horrific, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, frightening, fearful, fearsome, terrible
Definition: causing fear or dread or terror
Usage: 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
Main entry: horrid, horrific, hideous, outrageous
Definition: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Usage: subjected to outrageous cruelty; a hideous pattern of injustice; horrific conditions in the mining industry