参考词典中horrific的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 令人毛骨悚然的,可怖的
词形变化
- 副 词:hor·rif'i·cal·ly
英英解释
2个形容词解释
- grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
[同] hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
[例]- subjected to outrageous cruelty
- a hideous pattern of injustice
- horrific conditions in the mining industry
- causing fear or dread or terror
[同] dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, awful, terrible
[例]- 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
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