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Definition of Horrific
1. Adjective. Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror. "Horrific conditions in the mining industry"
Similar to: Offensive
Derivative terms: Horridness, Outrage, Outrageousness
2. Adjective. Causing fear or dread or terror. "A terrible curse"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Awfulness, Dread, Terribleness
Definition of Horrific
1. a. Causing horror; frightful.
Definition of Horrific
1. Adjective. horrifying, causing horror; horrible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horrific
1. causing horror [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrific
Literary usage of Horrific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"Theseus introduced it —Next you'll meet serpente, and wild beasts and
monsters, (Suddenly, and with a «Août in Bacchus'» ear.) horrific to behold ! ..."
2. Bibliotheca Spenceriana: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in by George John Spencer Spencer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1814)
"In the present copy this is the last cut, and not the least horrific representation
of the whole ; as the ensuing fac-simile of a part of it may demonstrate ..."
3. The Price of Blood: An Extravaganza of New York Life in 1807 by Howard Pyle (1899)
"... CHAPTER THREE The horrific EPISODE in the COURSE of which the LAWYER obtained
a Third CLIENT. [UR hero arrived at Bordentown (early upon ..."
4. Abaddon's Steam Engine, Calumny, Delineated: Being an Attempt to Stop Its by Richard Ferguson, Lover of mercy rejoicing over judgement (1817)
"... this blood stained field tby retrospective experience, and the horrific, black,
direful result will run into the proof of the words of the text, ..."
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