horrific

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}, {horrific}, {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}, {horrific},
       {terrible}]
    

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.
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         Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. --I.
                                                  Taylor.
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