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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
horrific
1. 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, terrible
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
terribleness (for: terrible), dread (for: dread), awfulness (for: awful)
2. 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
• Similar to:
offensive
• Derivationally related forms:
outrage (for: outrageous), outrageousness (for: outrageous), horridness (for: horrid)
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