horrifying in English

verb

1

fill with horror; shock greatly.

they were horrified by the very idea

synonyms: frighten, scare, terrify, petrify, paralyze, alarm, panic, terrorize, fill with fear, scare someone out of their wits, frighten the living daylights out of, make someone's hair stand on end, make someone's blood run cold, give someone the creeps, scare the pants off, spook, affright, shock, appall, outrage, scandalize, offend, disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken

adjective

• frightful, ugly, atrocious, horrible

verb

• frighten, scare, terrify, petrify, paralyze, alarm, panic, terrorize, fill with fear, scare someone out of their wits, frighten the living daylights out of, make someone's hair stand on end, make someone's blood run cold, give someone the creeps, scare the pants off, spook, affright
• shock, appall, outrage, scandalize, offend, disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken
• dismay, appal, alarm, appall

Use "horrifying" in a sentence

1. These were horrifying experiences.

2. I find their ignorance horrifying.

3. Arousing terror; horrifying: a Bloodcurdling scream.

4. It can be a horrifying experience.

5. More horrifying than cannibals or Communards.

6. It's horrifying to see such poverty.

7. Her daughter says it's a horrifying attack.

8. The Barbarity of the attack was horrifying

9. Such a display of emotions was horrifying.

10. The scale of the problem is horrifying.

11. The Barbarity of the attack was horrifying

12. The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.

13. Funeral Home Makes Horrifying Mistake, Cremates Wrong Body

14. BloodCurdling definition, arousing terror; horrifying: a bloodCurdling scream

15. A human observer may find the scene horrifying.

16. The reports about how people died make horrifying reading.

17. Airdropping penis pics is the latest horrifying subway trend

18. The results of that are too horrifying to contemplate.

19. Beholders are horrifying beings with incredible intelligence, and even great powers

20. Synonyms: horrifying, shocking [informal], terrible, alarming More Synonyms of Appalling

21. The police arrived to find a scene of horrifying destruction.

22. Appalling (comparative more Appalling, superlative most Appalling) Horrifying and astonishing

23. As a nation, our consumption of junk food is horrifying.

24. It's horrifying to see how much poverty there is here.

25. One horrifying event she still clearly remembers occurred on Ferry Lane.

26. And they were equally, if not more, horrifying -- the images were.

27. He followed this up with a few horrifying anecdotes from his own past.

28. 59 synonyms for Atrocious: shocking, terrible, appalling, horrible, horrifying, grievous, execrable

29. In the meantime, international, interracial, and intertribal wars continue to reap a horrifying harvest.

30. Thus, Caesar turns a horrifying military Blunder into a positive propaganda story

31. 13 He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was.

32. Synonyms for Blackguarding include scandalising, scandalizing, disgusting, offending, outraging, shocking, appalling, horrifying, affronting and nauseating

33. In that horrifying ruin of an apartment, she did all those revolting deeds...!

34. This is not as horrifying a prospect as critics of universal health care suggest.

35. Probably the most horrifying event in the Vietnam War was the My Lai Massacre.

36. To their alarm, civil servants began to receive a growing stream of horrifying reports.

37. Synonyms for Affrighting include scaring, frightening, terrifying, alarming, startling, shocking, horrifying, panicking, terrorising and terrorizing

38. Provoking horror Synonyms: frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly Examples - a frightful crime of decapitation - an alarming, even horrifying, picture - an Atrocious automobile accident - an ugly wound - war is beyond all words horrible; exceptionally bad or displeasing

39. We are deeply saddened by the horrifying scenes of harm inflicted upon innocent people by terrorist acts.

40. The most horrifying thing is that alongside these prices, oil production costs are actually minimal.

41. What I saw was horrifying —corpses littered the ground, and choking smoke filled the air.

42. He also said, "I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying.

43. On a daily basis, newspapers herald forth horrifying accounts of terrorism, violent crimes, and mysterious illnesses.

44. Said to be a cursed film from the late 1970s, Antrum examines the horrifying power of storytelling

45. It was a horrifying proclamation, when modesty caused the legs even of pianos to be decently covered.

46. The horrifying news sent the Ciprianos on a nationwide search to find the best possible treatment for their daughter.

47. The horrifying Apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run.

48. With it came the realisation of the meaning of the horrifying dream about the little muttering peasant.

49. Said to be a Cursed film from the late 1970s, Antrum examines the horrifying power of storytelling

50. Said to be a cursed film from the late 1970s, Antrum examines the horrifying power of storytelling.