Hypertext Webster Gateway: "horrific"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Horrific \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
horrific
adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
"subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern
of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining
industry" [syn: {hideous}, {horrid}, {outrageous}]
2: 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"
[syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful},
{fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {terrible}]
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