horrified
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪd/
- She was horrified to discover that her friend had been lying to her.
- shocked and horrified
- look horrified
- just horrified
She was saying that she was horrified by my giant pile of laundry.
- She was saying that she was horrified by my giant pile of laundry.
- So the clerk is horrified and tries to run away.
- I mean I was, I was horrified and I was screaming help screaming.
- If you dare read the book, you're most likely to be horrified by what's going on.
- I was so Oh my God, so horrified and I still don't know who that person was.
- I I'm horrified by this story.
- And and she looked a little horrified.
- And at that particular point, the officers were getting horrified at their lack of control.
- So what is Crowder tweeting something that shocked and horrified Dan?
- When I finished my presentation, my fellow panelists were horrified.
- And I listed Mein Kampf and they were horrified.
- What they mean to do is to keep you horrified.
- I get back to the source who's who's, who's kind of horrified by what they've heard and they speak to someone else.
- And they would have been horrified by the ease in with which we talk about God today.
- And she was proud but slightly horrified because she couldn't.
Examples
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The gray-haired woman saw the horrified look on Anna's face.
Fiction book (1998) -
Most people are horrified to hear that somebody is recording data.
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So I started this journey being horrified by the treatment.
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And her parents were horrified that that that I would do this.
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So in this sense, yes, I am horrified by this.
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I'm as shocked and horrified as anyone by what happened here today.
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This is Monet who is horrified by the whole thing.
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Susan greeted me in a horrified tone when I came on duty one evening.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'm so horrified!
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Alfred, stricken dumb, gazed after him, too horrified to be able to say a word.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
Feeling surprised and upset because something bad or unexpected happens
Feeling very afraid because you think something bad will happen
Too shocked to move or think clearly
Shocked and upset by something bad or wrong
Feeling very shocked and upset after seeing or hearing something terrible
So shocked and afraid that you cannot move
Feeling very shocked and afraid after seeing something frightening
Suddenly feeling very frightened
Antonyms
How Horrified
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horrified comes from an old Latin verb horrēre, which means 'to make the hair stand up' or 'to shiver', and you can see the same root in horror and horrible. So, to be horrified is to feel that sudden shiver or shock of fear or disgust.