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Boisterous vs Horrendous - What's the difference?

boisterous | horrendous |

As adjectives the difference between boisterous and horrendous

is that boisterous is full of energy; exuberant; noisy while horrendous is extremely bad; awful; terrible.

boisterous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
  • Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
  • Having or resembling animal exuberance.
  • horrendous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
  • * There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash.
  • * My journey to work this morning was horrendous !
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}

    Synonyms

    * awful, horrific, terrible, dreadful