horrific

Adjective

• 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
    

• grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
  • subjected to outrageous cruelty
    
  • a hideous pattern of injustice
    
  • horrific conditions in the mining industry
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hideous , horrid , outrageous