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Horrendous vs Horrifying - What's the difference?

horrendous | horrifying |

As adjectives the difference between horrendous and horrifying

is that horrendous is extremely bad; awful; terrible while horrifying is tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.

As a verb horrifying is

present participle of lang=en.

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

    Related terms

    * horrible * horrific * horrify * horror

    horrifying

    English

    Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending]] to inspire horror; that [[horrify, horrifies; horrific.
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    • Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a ' horrifying tangent.