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horrific

/haw-rif-ik, ho-/US // hɔˈrɪf ɪk, hɒ- //UK // (hɒˈrɪfɪk, hə-) //

可怕的,骇人听闻的,骇人听闻,恐怖的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing horror.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.horrible

Examples

  • This is not unique to my own story but most people of color have horrific stories to tell about how their D&I rep was disconnected from the problems they faced at their firm.

  • Some of the most innovative, beautiful, and horrific characteristics of plants and animals have also been shaped by arms races in nature.

  • Nine days later, Belarus is besieged by a horrific level of violence, including more than 6,000 arrests and at least two confirmed deaths.

  • In 1991, he drove into the capital with two female colleagues and discovered that Iraqi troops had committed myriad horrific crimes.

  • The costs of such quick herd immunity, however, would be horrific.

  • In its presence--jolting, sudden, horrific—the monster is the monster of grief.

  • We love to laugh at Kim and Company because it distracts our souls from the horrific reality of their hermetic regime.

  • One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.

  • I always saw the horrific side of this seemingly benign environment.

  • The refugee stories are compelling at first, but horrific details are numbing.

  • Horrific yells and screams could be heard by the men as they looked on from their distant position.

  • Immediately after that he drank a horrific draft of white wine for the ease of his kidneys.

  • All these thrown in the pot of political regeneration made a situation that was tragically immoral and horrific.

  • Horrid fellows are they, one and all; horrid fellows and horrific scenes.

  • Quite suddenly they seemed to stand up against the blazing sky, monstrous, horrific, smiting the senses like a blow.