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Synonyms for horrifying
hor·ri·fy·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyadjective
provoking horror
"an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
Synonyms:
frightful, flagitious, unworthy, wretched, terrible, monstrous, fearful, horrible, worthless, tremendous, abominable, unspeakable, awful, grievous, atrocious, slimy, ugly, dreadful, vile, despicable, painful, surlyAntonyms:
unalarming
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "horrifying":
horrific, terrible, appalling, horrible, horrendous, terrifying, frightening, dreadful, gruesome, awful, shocking, heinous, scary, atrocious
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#6918 | terrible | |
#7689 | ugly | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#8774 | tremendous | |
#9372 | painful | |
#9392 | scary | |
#9775 | awful | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#20756 | frightening | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#22989 | fearful | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#25388 | terrifying | |
#26052 | horrific | |
#27379 | vile | |
#29891 | appalling | |
#30875 | monstrous | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#36370 | gruesome | |
#38864 | horrendous | |
#38945 | unworthy | |
#39885 | horrifying | |
#40529 | grievous | |
#45237 | unspeakable | |
#45529 | heinous | |
#46824 | surly | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#48820 | slimy | |
#50274 | atrocious | |
#51404 | abominable | |
#54515 | frightful |
How to use horrifying in a sentence?
With everything that has gone on nationally in the last six months, which has been horrifying and astounding, there's been a rush to put body cameras in the field, right now the policies behind body cameras are all over the place.
The giant tortoise pursued the tern chick along a log, finally killing the chick and eating it, it was a very slow encounter, with the tortoise moving at its normal, slow walking pace – the whole interaction took seven minutes and was quite horrifying.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
We ask all parents to please continue to talk with yourchildren about inappropriate behaviors as they will not be tolerated. Safety for our students and staff is oneof our top priorities. what [the person] did was horrifying for a lot of different kids.
The situation is dire, some reports are truly horrifying and the latest reports of' slave markets' for migrants can be added to a long list of outrages.
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