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1 horrendo
adj.horrible, terrible, dreadful, horrifying.* * *► adjetivo1 horrible, horrifying, awful, frightful* * *ADJ1) (=aterrador) [crimen] horrific, ghastly *2) (=horrible) [ropa, zapatos] hideous, ghastly *; [película, libro] dreadful; [frío, calor] terrible, dreadful, awful* * ** * *= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex. If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex. The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.* * ** * *= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.
Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex: The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.* * *horrendo -da* * *
horrendo◊ -da adjetivo See Also→ horroroso
' horrendo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
horrendo-a
- infierno
English:
eyewitness
- harrowing
- horrendous
- horrific
- ghastly
- hideous
- horrifying
* * ** * *adj horrendous* * *horrendo, -da adj: horrendous, horrible -
2 horroroso
adj.horrible, frightful, fearsome, dreadful.* * *► adjetivo1 (que causa miedo) horrifying, terrifying3 familiar (malísimo) dreadful, awful4 familiar (muy grande) awful* * *(f. - horrorosa)adj.horrible, horrifying* * *ADJ1) (=aterrador) dreadful, ghastly *2) (=horrible) [ropa, peinado] hideous, horrific; [dolor] terrible; [película, libro] dreadful* * *- sa adjetivo < crimen> horrific, horrifying; <película/novela> terrible, awful; <persona/vestido> awful, ghastly, horrific (colloq)* * *= appalling, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, shocking, horrible, dreadful, hellish, grisly [grislier -comp., grisliest -sup.], horrid, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.].Ex. His article, 'The skeleton in the our closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries.Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex. If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex. The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex. The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex. The movie novel is about a trio of small-town guys who come across a wrecked plane containing a bag full of what they presume to be 'dirty money' and decide to hold onto it, with predictably hellish consequences.Ex. Much of what he sees and shows his readers is grim, if not grisly.Ex. The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.Ex. I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.* * *- sa adjetivo < crimen> horrific, horrifying; <película/novela> terrible, awful; <persona/vestido> awful, ghastly, horrific (colloq)* * *= appalling, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, shocking, horrible, dreadful, hellish, grisly [grislier -comp., grisliest -sup.], horrid, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.].Ex: His article, 'The skeleton in the our closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries.
Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex: The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex: The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex: The movie novel is about a trio of small-town guys who come across a wrecked plane containing a bag full of what they presume to be 'dirty money' and decide to hold onto it, with predictably hellish consequences.Ex: Much of what he sees and shows his readers is grim, if not grisly.Ex: The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.Ex: I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.* * *horroroso -sa‹crimen› horrific, horrifying; ‹película/novela› terrible, dreadful; ‹persona/vestido› awful, ghastly ( colloq), horrific ( colloq)hizo un tiempo horroroso the weather was horrendous o awful o foultengo un hambre horrorosa I'm terribly hungry, I'm absolutely starving ( colloq)* * *
horroroso
‹película/novela› terrible, awful;
‹persona/vestido› awful, horrific (colloq);◊ tengo un hambre horrorosa I'm absolutely starving (colloq)
horroroso,-a adjetivo
1 (que causa terror) horrifying, terrifying
2 fam (muy feo) hideous, ghastly
3 fam (muy desagradable) awful, dreadful
' horroroso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
horrorosa
- traer
- horrendo
English:
appalling
- ask back
- frightful
- ghastly
- grisly
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrid
- vile
- wicked
- awful
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- horrifying
* * *horroroso, -a, horrendo, -a adj1. [terrorífico] horrific, horrifying, terrifying;un accidente horroroso a horrific accidentnos hizo un tiempo horroroso we had appalling o awful weathertiene un novio horroroso she's got a hideous boyfriend;ese vestido le queda horroroso that dress looks hideous on her¡qué frío más horroroso! it's absolutely freezing!;tengo un hambre horrorosa I'm ravenous o starving;tengo unas ganas horrorosas de leerlo I'm dying to read it* * ** * *horroroso, -sa adj1) : horrifying, terrifying2) : dreadful, bad* * *horroroso adj1. (accidente, etc) horrific2. (horrible) awful / terrible -
3 horrible
adj.1 horrifying, terrifying.2 terrible, awful (muy malo).3 horrible, hideous (muy feo).* * *► adjetivo1 horrible, dreadful, awful* * *adj.* * *ADJ1) (=espantoso) [accidente, crimen, matanza] horrific2) (=feo) [persona, objeto, ropa, cuadro] hideous3) (=malo, perverso) horrible¡qué hombre tan horrible! — what a horrible man!
4) (=insoportable) terriblehizo un calor horrible — it was terribly hot, the heat was terrible
la conferencia fue un rollo horrible — * the lecture was a real drag *
* * *a) <accidente/muerte> horrible, horrificc) < tiempo> terrible, awfuld) ( inaguantable) unbearable* * *= horrid, lousy [lousier -comp., lousiest -sup.], unsightly, revolting, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unpleasant, awful, terrible, crummy [crummier -comp., crummiest -sup.], hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, heinous, frightening, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.], pathetic.Ex. The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.Ex. I want to react, though, to your description of lousy catalogers.Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.Ex. This was so that the stuffing could be teased out and cleared of lumps, and so that the pelts could be softened by currying and soaking them in urine; the smell is said to have been revolting.Ex. Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.Ex. And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.Ex. These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex. She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex. One librarian bluntly wondered about the ethics of sending ' crummy looking books with information that is incorrect or obsolete to the needy (because) everyone should have access to good material'.Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex. The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex. There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Ex. I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.Ex. Unfortunately, the quality of the debate on the other side is pathetic.----* horrible, espantoso, de puta pena = awful.* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.* tener un aspecto horrible = look + shit.* * *a) <accidente/muerte> horrible, horrificc) < tiempo> terrible, awfuld) ( inaguantable) unbearable* * *= horrid, lousy [lousier -comp., lousiest -sup.], unsightly, revolting, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unpleasant, awful, terrible, crummy [crummier -comp., crummiest -sup.], hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, heinous, frightening, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.], pathetic.Ex: The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.
Ex: I want to react, though, to your description of lousy catalogers.Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.Ex: This was so that the stuffing could be teased out and cleared of lumps, and so that the pelts could be softened by currying and soaking them in urine; the smell is said to have been revolting.Ex: Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.Ex: And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.Ex: These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex: She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex: One librarian bluntly wondered about the ethics of sending ' crummy looking books with information that is incorrect or obsolete to the needy (because) everyone should have access to good material'.Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex: The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex: There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Ex: I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.Ex: Unfortunately, the quality of the debate on the other side is pathetic.* horrible, espantoso, de puta pena = awful.* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.* tener un aspecto horrible = look + shit.* * *1 (trágico, espantoso) ‹accidente/muerte› horrible, horrific2 (feo) ‹persona› hideous, ugly; ‹camisa/adorno› horrible, hideous3 (malo) ‹tiempo› terrible, awful, dreadful4(inaguantable): ¡qué calor más horrible! it's terribly o unbearably hot!* * *
horrible adjetivo
‹camisa/adorno› horrible, hideous
horrible adjetivo horrible, dreadful, awful
' horrible' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amanecer
- horrendo-a
- infame
- pestazo
- antipático
- calor
- cargante
- mal
- malo
- odioso
- pereza
- perro
- pinche
- tocar
- tufo
English:
awful
- cat
- dreadful
- hideous
- hole
- horrible
- horrid
- it
- manage
- mind
- nasty
- shocking
- thought
- wretched
- abominable
- crummy
- foul
- ghastly
- revolting
- rotten
- sickly
- vile
* * *horrible adj1. [terrorífico] horrific, terrifying;un accidente horrible a horrific accidentnos hizo un tiempo horrible we had terrible o awful weathertiene un novio horrible she's got a horrible-looking o hideous boyfriend;ese vestido le queda horrible that dress looks horrible o hideous on her¡qué frío más horrible! it's absolutely freezing!;tengo un hambre horrible I'm ravenous o starving* * *adj horrible, dreadful* * *horrible adj: horrible, dreadful♦ horriblemente adv* * *horrible adj1. (en general) awful / terrible2. (accidente) horrific
См. также в других словарях:
espantoso — {{#}}{{LM E16141}}{{〓}} {{SynE16557}} {{[}}espantoso{{]}}, {{[}}espantosa{{]}} ‹es·pan·to·so, sa› {{《}}▍ adj.{{》}} {{<}}1{{>}} Que causa espanto: • un monstruo espantoso.{{○}} {{<}}2{{>}} Muy grande: • Tengo un hambre espantosa.{{○}} {{<}}3{{>}}… … Diccionario de uso del español actual con sinónimos y antónimos
atroz — (Del lat. atrox < ater, negro.) ► adjetivo 1 Que es fiero o cruel: ■ la suya fue una reacción atroz. IRREG. plural atroces SINÓNIMO salvaje 2 Que es grave o intenso: ■ tengo un dolor de cabeza atroz, que me tiene atolondrada. 3 … Enciclopedia Universal