Meaning of HORRIFIC
| Pronunciation: | | ho'rifik
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | alarming, awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, hideous, horrendous, horrid, offensive, outrageous, terrible |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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