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Definição e significado de horrific
Definição
horrific (adj.)
1.exceedingly bad"when she was bad she was horrid"
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 stor..."
3.grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror"subjected to outrageous cruelty" "a hideous pattern of injustice" "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
4.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"
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Merriam Webster
HorrificHor*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.
Sinónimos
horrific (adj.)
abhorrent, alarming, atrocious, awful, dire, direful, disgusting, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, fearful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, ghastly, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inelegant, loathsome, off-putting, outrageous, plain, repellant, repellent, repelling, repulsive, revolting, terrible, ugly, unlovely, unsightly, homely (American)
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horrific (adj.)
↘ abominably, abysmally, alarmingly, appallingly, atrociously, atrociousness, atrocity, awfully, barbarity, barbarousness, creep, disgustedness, dreadfully, enormity, formidably, frightfully, ghastly, heinously, heinousness, hideously, homeliness, horribly, horrifically, horrifyingly, horror, inelegantly, loathsomeness, monstrously, plainly, plainness, repugnance, repulsion, repulsiveness, revulsion, rottenly, shockingly, terribleness, terribly, uglify, uglily, ugliness ↗ affright, alarm, anxiety, appal, appall, apprehension, cow, dismay, dread, fearfulness, fright, frighten, funk, give a fright, give a scare, give a start, horrify, nerves, nervousness, panic, scare, scare away, scare off, startle, strike terror into, tension
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Dicionario analógico
horrific (adj.)
bad, ill[Similaire]
horrific (adj.)
horrific (adj.)
alarm, appal, appall, dismay, horrify[Qui~]
alarming[Similaire]
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