horrific

adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;

"subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern

of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining

industry" [syn: {hideous}, {horrid}, {outrageous}]

2: 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"

[syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful},

{fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {terrible}]