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horrifying

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈhɔːɹɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ//

Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of horrifypresent participle and gerund of horrify

adjective

  1. 1

    Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.

    Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.

Forms

comparative
more horrifying
superlative
most horrifying
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).