Synonyms for horrific

Grammar : Adj

Spell : haw-rif-ik, ho-

Phonetic Transcription : hɔˈrɪf ɪk, hɒ-

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Définition of horrific

Origin : "causing horror," 1650s, from French horrifique or directly from Latin horrificus "dreadful, exciting terror," literally "making the hair stand on end," from horrere "to bristle, to stand on end" (see horror) + -ficus, from stem of facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Horrifically.

adj horrible

Example sentences :

With horrific pants he emitted smokiest smoke and fiercest fire.
Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame

The picture is a tragic one, cumulative in its horrific details.
Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten

She merely sensed that it was red carnage, titanic, horrific.
Extract from : « Good References » by E. J. Rath

What happened after that is more obscure and fraught with horrific suggestion.
Extract from : « The Fantasy Fan December 1933 » by Charles D. Hornig

The most fantastic and horrific of nightmares was actually materialised.
Extract from : « Tropic Days » by E. J. Banfield

The very idea of a female's chopping wood, is to some horrific.
Extract from : « The American Indians » by Henry R. Schoolcraft

Page 76: "horriffic" changed to "horrific" (is to some horrific).
Extract from : « Western Scenes and Reminiscences » by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Horrid fellows are they, one and all; horrid fellows and horrific scenes.
Extract from : « Lay Morals » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Never had she dreamed of anything so horrific as that drumming of cannon.
Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Louis Tracy

His astonishment would be so horrific that she flinched even from the thought.
Extract from : « The Fortieth Door » by Mary Hastings Bradley

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