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Horrific

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing horror; terrifying.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Causing horror; frightful.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Causing horror.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing fear or dread or terror

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

Word Usage

"Red State is not a comedy, there's been a lot of speculation about what it really is but from what Kevin Smith says I think it sounds more like a thriller with horrific elements added, but using the term horrific not to describe gore and blood but more shocking than anything."

Equivalent

alarming offensive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

frightful

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Pacific hieroglyphic honorific nonspecific pacific prolific pseudoscientific scientific specific terrific

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

horrify gruesome terrify horrendous frightful devastate ghastly fearsome scary harrowing