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horrifyingadjective causing fearcouldn't sleep after reading a horrifying tale of evil a horrifying scream brought people running from all directions to see what was wrong alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening extremely disturbing or repellentthe horrifying sight of a rat running through the restaurant's kitchen appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, gut-wrenching, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifyingabhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickeningabominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vilegrotesque, ugly, unsightly agreeable, appealing, attractive, delectable, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, enticing, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcomecheering, comforting, soothing horrifyingverbpresent participle of horrifyto strike with fearthe old black-and-white psychological thriller still horrifies audiences affrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, frighting, panicking, scarifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifying, terrorizing appalling, bowling over, dismaying, flooring, jolting, shaking, shaking upamazing, astounding, awingchilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringingdiscomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying giving one the creeps, making one's flesh creep(or making one's flesh crawl) reassuring assuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiring, steeling |