horrific

(s) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
- subjected to outrageous cruelty
- a hideous pattern of injustice
- horrific conditions in the mining industry
hideous, outrageous, horrid,
(s) causing fear or dread or terror
- the awful war
- an awful risk
- dire news
- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
- the dread presence of the headmaster
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
- a dreadful storm
- a fearful howling
- horrendous explosions shook the city
- a terrible curse
direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible, awful, dire, fearful,

hideous outrageous horrid direful dread dreaded dreadful fearsome frightening horrendous terrible awful dire fearful

horrify