Appalling
Appalling adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
Usage example: opening your mouth to show me your half-chewed food is absolutely appalling
Horrendous is a synonym for appalling in terrible topic. In some cases you can use "Horrendous" instead an adjective "Appalling", when it comes to topics like shocking, awful, good, horrid. popular alternative
Horrendous
Horrendous adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: a horrendous explosion shook the building
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- repulsive and appalling
- repulsive and horrendous
- monstrous and appalling
- monstrous and horrendous
- hideous and appalling
- hideous and horrendous
- terrible and appalling
- terrible and horrendous
- atrocious and appalling
- atrocious and horrendous
- dreadful and appalling
- dreadful and horrendous
- frightful and appalling
- frightful and horrendous
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