Synonyms of the word

horrific

• adj. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

alarming

• v. present participle of alarm.
• adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

dire

• adj. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
• adj. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
• adj. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
• adj. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

direful

• adj. Fearful, terrible.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

dreaded

• adj. Causing fear, dread or terror.
• adj. Wearing dreadlocks.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dread.

dreadful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether.
• adj. Full of something causing dread, whether.
• n. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
• n. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
• n. A shocking or sensational crime.

fearful

• adj. Frightening.
• adj. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• adj. Tending to fear.
• adj. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

fearsome

• adj. frightening, especially in appearance.
• adj. (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened.

frightening

• adj. Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
• adj. (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
• v. present participle of frighten.

hideous

• adj. Extremely or shockingly ugly.
• adj. Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.
• adj. Hateful; shocking.

horrendous

• adj. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

horrid

• adj. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
• adj. Causing horror or dread.
• adj. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

offensive

• adj. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
• adj. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
• adj. (team sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
• n. (countable, military) An attack.
• n. (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

outrageous

• adj. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
• adj. (now rare) Fierce, violent.
• adj. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
• adj. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

terrible

• adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
• adj. Formidable, powerful.
• adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
• adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
• adj. Very bad; lousy.