horrendously

/həˈɹɛndəsli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English

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"The car handled horrendously when I took it for a test drive."
"Mean-times, spelling and pronunciation are horrendously uncircumvoluted and the English vocabulary simply oozes with unloquaciousness. Irregardless of whether I say “wreck a nice beach” or “recognize speech,” you know what I mean, unless I say it too fast."

Etymology tree English horrendous Middle English -ly English -ly English horrendously From horrendous + -ly.

more horrendously (comparative) most horrendously (superlative)

tremendously

Questions

How do you pronounce horrendously?

The recorded pronunciation is /həˈɹɛndəsli/.

What does horrendously mean?

In a horrendous manner.

Where does horrendously come from?

Etymology tree English horrendous Middle English -ly English -ly English horrendously From horrendous + -ly.

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