Synonyms for horrific
hɔˈrɪf ɪk, hɒ-hor·rif·ic

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1. hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageousadjective

   grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

   "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

   Synonyms:
   dread(a), fearsome, hideous, extortionate, direful, terrible, dreaded, dire, unconscionable, fearful, frightening, horrendous, awful, usurious, exorbitant, dreadful, outrageous, repulsive, steep, horrid

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, unalarming

2. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming, inoffensive

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1. horrificadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, HORRID

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1. List of paraphrases for "horrific":

   terrible, horrible, horrendous, appalling, dreadful, horrifying, awful, heinous, atrocious, terrifying, gruesome, abhorrent, dire, frightening, hideous, egregious, abominable, shocking, ghastly, horrid, hair-raising, ugly, odious, cruel, monstrous

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1. Jeff Merkley:

   The situation is certainly horrific, and I think that symbolically this move represents for many Palestinians the end of their hopes for a two-state solution.

2. Mayor Tom Barrett:

   This is a tragic day for our city, this is a tragic day for our state. Five families, six families actually are grieving and will be grieving because of this horrific act of this individual, this is a time for us to think about those families. Because there are five individuals who went to work today, just like everybody goes to work. And they thought they were going to go to work, finish their day and return to their families. They didn't and tragically they never will.

3. Skye Wheeler:

   The longer they are held by ISIS, the more horrific life becomes for Yazidi women, bought and sold, brutally raped, their children torn from them.

4. Rex Tillerson:

   I hope Russia is thinking carefully about its continued alliance with Bashar al-Assad, because every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws Russia closer into some level of responsibility.

5. Jacinda Ardern:

   Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer.