Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: horrific
IPA transcription: [hɔɹ'ɪfɪk]
Pronunciations of horrific
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
    Meaning: 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: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
    Meaning: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
Usage examples
  • Here was a strange experience--the horrific vision in the midst of things so accustomed.
  • But if, in the first instance, there had occurred something which occasioned me surprise, in the second, this surprise became elevated into astonishment; and this astonishment was profound--was extreme--indeed I may say it was horrific.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Nyarlathotep, License CC BY-SA 4.0