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horrifying
Synonyms and Antonyms of horrifying
- couldn't sleep after reading a horrifying tale of evil
- a horrifying scream brought people running from all directions to see what was wrong
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
- the horrifying sight of a rat running through the restaurant's kitchen
alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, gut-wrenching, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifying
abhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vile
Synonyms and Antonyms of horrifying
- the 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 up
chilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringing
discomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
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