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Meaning of 'horrific' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Horrific [ a.]
- Causing horror; frightful.

Meaning of 'horrific' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . horrific [ s]
Meaning (1):
- causing fear or dread or terror
Example in sentence:
  • a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked;
  • a dreadful storm;
  • a fearful howling;
  • a terrible curse;
  • an awful risk;
  • dire news;
  • horrendous explosions shook the city;
  • polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was;
  • the awful war;
  • the dread presence of the headmaster
Meaning (2):
- grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Example in sentence:
  • a hideous pattern of injustice;
  • horrific conditions in the mining industry;
  • subjected to outrageous cruelty

Nearby Words:

horal horaly horary horatian horde hordeic hordein hordeolum hordock hore

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