Found 2 items, similar to horrific.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: horrific horrific 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, 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(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Horrific 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. [1913 Webster] Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]