horrifying

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

horrifying
    adj 1: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a
           frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even
           horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"-
           Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious},
           {frightful}, {horrifying}, {horrible}, {ugly}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Horrify \Hor"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Horrified}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Horrifying}.] [L. horrificare. See {Horrific}.]
   To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror;
   as, the sight horrified the beholders. --E. Irving.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "horrifying":
      appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful,
      baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell,
      formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous,
      horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, macabre, morbid,
      redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific,
      terrifying, tragic, tremendous, unspeakable

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