1 extremely bad and shocking or frightening
SYNHORRIFYING:
a horrific murder / accident / attack * Her injuries were horrific. * She's been through a horrific ordeal.
2 (informal) very bad or unpleasant
SYNHORRENDOUS:
We had a horrific trip.
HELPNOTE Some people use an instead of a before this word and then usually do not pronounce the 'h'. This now sounds old-fashioned.
horrifically adverb:
He was horrifically murdered.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for horrific is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is horrific a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, horrific is tagged as adjective.
Does horrific appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — horrific appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
