About The Word Horrific
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Horrific
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What's The Definition Of Horrific?
[adj] causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "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"
[adj] grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" Synonyms | Synonyms for Horrific: alarming | awful | dire | direful | dread(a) | dreaded | dreadful | fearful | fearsome | frightening | hideous | horrendous | horrid | offensive | outrageous | terrible Related Terms | Find terms related to Horrific: See Also | Horrific In Webster's Dictionary \Hor*rif"ic\, a. [L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible
+ -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See
{Horror}, {-fy}.]
Causing horror; frightful.
Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. --I.
Taylor.
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