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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HORRIF'IC, a. [L. horrificus.] Causing horror.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, 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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1653 having the power to horrify <a horrific account of the tragedy> • horrifically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. horrifying. Derivatives: horrifically adv. Etymology: F horrifique or L horrificus f. horrere: see HORRID

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horrific Hor*rif"ic, a. [L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See Horror, -fy.] Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. --I. Taylor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe a physical attack, accident, or injury as horrific, you mean that it is very bad, so that people are shocked when they see it or think about it. I have never seen such horrific injuries... = horrendous ADJ • horrifically He had been horrifically assaulted before he died. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you describe something as horrific, you mean that it is so big that it is extremely unpleasant. ...piling up horrific extra amounts of money on top of your original debt. = horrendous ADJ • horrifically Opera productions are horrifically expensive. ADV: ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Frightful. See horrid.