All horrifying synonyms
hor·ri·fy
H h adjective horrifying
- horrific — causing horror.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
- sickening — causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
- appalling — Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- awful — If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- dismaying — Present participle of dismay.
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.