horrific

形容词 horrific:

1. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
   同义词：hideous, horrid, outrageous
2. causing fear or dread or terror
   同义词：awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible

1. The blood in my veins curdled at the horrific sight.
   看到这一可怕情景时，我血管中的血似乎凝固了
2. He stiffened (with terror) at the horrific sight.
   他看到那恐怖的情景吓呆了。

hor.rif.ic

adj.（形容词）
Causing horror; terrifying.
可怕的：引起恐惧的；令人害怕的

来源：
Latin horrificus
拉丁语 horrificus
horrôre [to tremble]
horrôre [发抖]
-ficus [-fic]
-ficus [后缀，表示.形成…的.]

【引伸】
horrif.ically
adv.（副词）