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Definition of Horrifying
1. Adjective. Provoking horror. "An ugly wound"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Frightfulness
Definition of Horrifying
1. Verb. (present participle of horrify) ¹
2. Adjective. Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horrifying
1. horrify [v] - See also: horrify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrifying
Literary usage of Horrifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Lands and Letters by Donald Grant Mitchell (1904)
"her pleasant "Memories," speaks pathetically of the "horrifying delinquencies of
our single ser- From a photograph ..."
2. Mysterious India: Its Rajahs--its Brahmans--its Fakirs by Robert Chauvelot (1921)
"... CHAPTER XXII THE horrifying COAST OF MALABAR Some simple ethnographical
remarks—With the French Administrator of Mahe—"Do you like sardines? ..."
3. The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1539 by lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Jackson (1896)
"A horrifying Announcement. — A Too Lenient Parliament. — A Stratagem of Madame
Louise. — Mental Agony. — A Gloomy Procession. — A Message of Mercy. ..."
4. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"... when it is over with them (when they die) return to their Maker, the horrifying
state (Hell) for an hereafter is the Pulpit-Thing's (Friar's) means of ..."
5. Air Power and Desert Storm by Richard B. Clark (1993)
"The slim possibility that some may have lingered on for years is more horrifying
than the more believable contention that they died quickly in captivity. ..."
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