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What is the adjective for horrified?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs horrify and horripilate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

horrid
  1. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
  2. Causing horror or dread.
  3. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. disgusting, nasty, horrible, revolting, repellent, repulsive, awful, distasteful, foul, offensive, loathsome, odious, sickening, vile, abominable, dreadful, unpleasant, obnoxious, repugnant, nauseating, disagreeable, appalling, abhorrent, gross, horrendous, terrible, hideous, objectionable, nauseous, obscene, shocking, yucky, ghastly, noxious, noisome, beastly, frightful, hateful, rancid, repellant, ugly, scandalous, lousy, disgustful, fulsome, evil, loathly, grotty, yucko, bogging … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears.”
      “They make a horrid attempt at articulation, and their jabbering is only equaled by the flocks of parakeets who keep the woods in an uproar from sunrise to sunset.”
      “The horrid sight of more than 500 live horses and mules sprawling or hobbling in a bleeding mass was never forgotten by those who witnessed it.”
horrible
  1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  2. Tremendously bad.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. disturbing, appalling, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, forbidding, troubling, upsetting, awful, daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, horrid, horrific, horrifying, unnerving, bothersome, demoralising, demoralizing, depressing, dire, disagreeable, discomforting, foreboding, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, gruesome, harrowing, horrendous, irksome, macabre, perturbing, terrible, unpleasant, unsettling, worrying, abominable, alarming, atrocious, discommoding, disgusting, displeasing, grisly, grotesque, monstrous, shocking … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The carnage that resulted was a truly horrible sight.”
      “She let out a horrible scream when she realized that the car her parents had bought her was the wrong color.”
      “That was a really horrible way to speak to your mother. You should be more respectful!”
horripilating
  1. Causing horripilation.
  2. (figuratively) Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.
horripilated
  1. Bristling with fear or horror; with fur or hair standing on end.
horrifying
  1. Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dreadful, horrible, shocking, awful, appalling, ghastly, terrible, frightful, horrendous, hideous, horrific, horrid, gruesome, grisly, macabre, monstrous, atrocious, nightmarish, sickening, lurid, nightmare, terrific, grewsome, terrifying, frightening, grim, dire, scary, alarming, fearful, unspeakable, fearsome, spine-chilling, eerie, hair-raising, chilling, abominable, petrifying, disgusting, forbidding, revolting, loathsome, harrowing, distressing, spooky, hellacious, direful, vile, repulsive, intimidating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “When he went to investigate what was happening, he was met with a truly horrifying scene. Standing in the living room was Ian Brady hitting Edward's head with a hatchet.”
      “He jumped on top of the armored personnel carrier and screeched the most horrifying zombie screech he could muster.”
      “The newcomers were plunged into a maelstrom of horrifying news about the arrival of creatures from Mars.”
horrific
  1. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. horrifying, appalling, dreadful, shocking, horrible, ghastly, disgusting, hideous, awful, monstrous, terrible, abominable, frightful, sickening, atrocious, nauseating, loathsome, unspeakable, abhorrent, horrendous, frightening, grim, grisly, execrable, harrowing, horrid, terrifying, fearful, grewsome, gross, gruesome, lurid, macabre, nightmare, nightmarish, terrific, bloodcurdling, disagreeable, hellacious, beastly, eerie, hair-raising, from hell, dire, distressing, alarming, forbidding, revolting, scary, unpleasant … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The consequences of drugs prescribed by practitioners with bogus qualifications and only the haziest understanding of medicine can be horrific.”
      “A teenage driver was killed when his car collided head-on with a heavy goods vehicle in a horrific accident on a major road near York.”
      “The combination of horrific makeup, abhorrent timing, and trite jokes has literally become painful.”
horridsome
  1. (rare) Characteristically or typically horrid; horrendous
horrendous
  1. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. horrific, grisly, gruesome, harrowing, awful, horrid, horrifying, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish, appalling, atrocious, dreadful, horrible, unspeakable, vile, detestable, disturbing, ghastly, grewsome, grim, heinous, hideous, lurid, shocking, terrible, upsetting, dreaded, hellacious, nightmare, terrific, beastly, frightful, abominable, dire, loathsome, revolting, frightening, terrifying, sickening, foul, disgusting, nasty, odious, unpleasant, bad, repulsive, abhorrent, offensive, distressing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It is Genji's own mental discourse assessing the shock of having encountered the horrendous vision of Rokujo's spirit haunting his wife.”
      “Moishy kicked the door open and was greeted with the horrendous sight of flames bursting into the room.”
      “As he opened a hole in the barricade, he was assaulted by a horrendous smell of decay and corruption.”
horrifical
  1. Of or pertaining to horror.
horrorsome
  1. Characterised or marked by horror.
horrifick
  1. Obsolete form of horrific.
horrified
  1. Struck with horror.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. terrified, frightened, scared, alarmed, afraid, fearful, shocked, aghast, spooked, hysterical, terrorised, terrorized, affrighted, hysteric, scary, disturbed, horror-struck, petrified, scared stiff, startled, panicky, unnerved, scared to death, anxious, terror-stricken, intimidated, jumpy, panic-stricken, stunned, appalled, horror-stricken, daunted, nervous, frozen, frantic, jittery, agitated, terror-struck, cowed, frightened to death, scared witless, dismayed, in a cold sweat, windy, frit, distressed, worried, perturbed, frightened out of your wits, upset … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned.”
      “Despite his initial surly attitude, he'd seemed genuinely horrified at the news of the tragic incident.”
      “His daughters were horrified at his behavior. He insulted the waitress. He drank too much. He glared at his wife and stuck out his tongue to annoy her.”
horribler
  1. comparative form of horrible: more horrible
  2. Synonyms:
      3. awfuller, horrider, direr, ghastlier, grimmer, gruesomer, terribler, unpleasanter, disgustinger, grislier, grotesquer, viler, fouler, uglier, hatefuller, more disturbing, more appalling, more disconcerting, more disquieting, more distressing, more dreadful, more forbidding, more troubling, more upsetting, more daunting, more disheartening, more horrific, more horrifying, more bothersome, more demoralising, more demoralizing, more depressing, more disagreeable, more foreboding, more frightening, more frightful, more harrowing, more horrendous, more irksome, more macabre, more unsettling, more worrying, more abominable, more alarming, more atrocious, more displeasing, more monstrous, more sickening, more terrifying, more troublesome … more
horriblest
  1. superlative form of horrible: most horrible
  2. Synonyms:
      3. awfullest, horridest, direst, ghastliest, grimmest, gruesomest, terriblest, unpleasantest, disgustingest, grisliest, grotesquest, vilest, foulest, ugliest, hatefullest, most disturbing, most appalling, most disconcerting, most disquieting, most distressing, most dreadful, most forbidding, most troubling, most upsetting, most daunting, most disheartening, most horrific, most horrifying, most bothersome, most demoralising, most demoralizing, most depressing, most disagreeable, most foreboding, most frightening, most frightful, most harrowing, most horrendous, most irksome, most macabre, most unsettling, most worrying, most abominable, most alarming, most atrocious, most displeasing, most monstrous, most sickening, most terrifying, most troublesome … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Blamed if he warn't the horriblest looking outrage I ever see.”
horrider
  1. comparative form of horrid: more horrid
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disgustinger, nastier, horribler, awfuller, fouler, viler, unpleasanter, grosser, terribler, obscener, yuckier, ghastlier, beastlier, hatefuller, uglier, lousier, fulsomer, eviller, loathlier, grottier, more revolting, more repellent, more repulsive, more distasteful, more offensive, more loathsome, more odious, more sickening, more abominable, more dreadful, more obnoxious, more repugnant, more nauseating, more disagreeable, more appalling, more abhorrent, more horrendous, more hideous, more objectionable, more nauseous, more noxious, more noisome, more frightful, more rancid, more repellant, more scandalous, more disgustful, more bogging, more insufferable, more annoying … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “No doubt priggery is a horrid thing, and the more moral the horrider.”
horridest
  1. superlative form of horrid: most horrid
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disgustingest, nastiest, horriblest, awfullest, foulest, vilest, unpleasantest, grossest, terriblest, obscenest, yuckiest, ghastliest, beastliest, hatefullest, ugliest, lousiest, fulsomest, evillest, loathliest, grottiest, most revolting, most repellent, most repulsive, most distasteful, most offensive, most loathsome, most odious, most sickening, most abominable, most dreadful, most obnoxious, most repugnant, most nauseating, most disagreeable, most appalling, most abhorrent, most horrendous, most hideous, most objectionable, most nauseous, most noxious, most noisome, most frightful, most rancid, most repellant, most scandalous, most disgustful, most bogging, most insufferable, most annoying … more
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