horrific meaning and definition

HORRIFIC adjective

Definition of horrific (adjective)

1. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
   • "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
   • synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous
2. causing fear or dread or terror
   • "the awful war"; "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"
   • synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible