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Horrific
adjective 1.Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror. Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous. "A hideous pattern of injustice" , "Horrific conditions in the mining industry" 2.Causing fear or dread or terror. Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible. "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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
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