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Horrific   /hɔrˈɪfɪk/   Listen
Horrific

adjective
1.
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror.  Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous.  "A hideous pattern of injustice" , "Horrific conditions in the mining industry"
2.
Causing fear or dread or terror.  Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible.  "An awful risk" , "Dire news" , "A career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" , "The dread presence of the headmaster" , "Polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" , "A dreadful storm" , "A fearful howling" , "Horrendous explosions shook the city" , "A terrible curse"






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"Horrific" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned back, and in a great storm of wind and rain began to retrace the dreary road we had come the day before. . . . I was not at all ill pleased to have to come again through that awful Glencoe. If it had been tremendous on the previous day, yesterday it was perfectly horrific. It had rained all night, and was raining then, as it only does in these parts. Through the whole glen, which is ten miles long, torrents were boiling and foaming, and sending up in every direction spray like the smoke of great fires. They were rushing down every hill and mountain ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster



Words linked to "Horrific" :   offensive, alarming



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