horrifying adj : provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly]

English

Verb

horrifying

1. present participle of horrify

Adjective

horrifying

1. that horrifies; horrific

appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, macabre, morbid, redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tragic, tremendous, unspeakable