Usually means: Evoking intense fear and disgust.
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  1. horrifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. horrifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horrifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. horrifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Horrifying, horrifying: Wordnik
  6. horrifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. horrifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Horrifying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Horrifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. horrifying: Rhymezone
  11. Horrifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. horrifying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. horrifying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. horrifying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. horrifying: Wiktionary
  16. Horrifying, horrifying: Dictionary.com
  17. horrifying: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. horrifying: Legal dictionary

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  1. horrifying: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (horrifying)

▸ adjective:  Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.

Similar:
horrible, frightful, alarming, atrocious, ugly, horrific, horrifical, terrifical, tormentous, gorgonian, more...

Opposite:
calming, relaxing, soothing

Phrases:
horrifying uneasiness, horrifying awareness, horrifying reality, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, strange, sudden, substantial

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Similar:
horrible, frightful, alarming, atrocious, ugly, horrific, horrifical, terrifical, tormentous, gorgonian, more...

Opposite:
calming, relaxing, soothing

Phrases:
horrifying uneasiness, horrifying awareness, horrifying reality, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, strange, sudden, substantial

Colors:
    blood red,     pitch black,     ghost white,     midnight blue,     ash gray, more...



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