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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing horror; terrifying.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Causing horror.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Causing horror; frightful.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. causing fear or dread or terror
  2. adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

Etymologies

  1. Latin horrificus, from horrere ("to be horrible") + -ficare ("to make (in comp.)"): confer French horrifique. See horror, -fy. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin horrificus : horrēre, to tremble + -ficus, -fic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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