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HORRIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horridness mean?
• HORRIDNESS (noun)
The noun HORRIDNESS has 1 sense:
1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness
Familiarity information: HORRIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality of extreme unpleasantness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness
Hypernyms ("horridness" is a kind of...):
unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horridness"):
frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)
Derivation:
horrid (exceedingly bad)
horrid (grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror)
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