| horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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| horrible | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| horribly | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, dreadfully |
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| horrid | (adjective) exceedingly bad | - |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrific, outrageous |
| horridly | (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, monstrously |
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| horridness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, dreadfulness, terribleness |
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| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| horrified | (adjective) stricken with horror | Synonyms: horror-stricken, horror-struck |
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| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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| horrifyingly | (adverb) in a horrifying manner | - |
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| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| horror | (noun) something that inspires horror; something horrible | - |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: repugnance, repulsion, revulsion |
| (noun) intense and profound fear | - |