| horrid | (adj) exceedingly bad, Example: when she was bad she was horrid |
| horrifyingly | (adv) in a horrifying manner, Example: he laughed horrifyingly |
| horripilate | (v) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps, Example: I horripilate when I see violence on television |
| horripilate | (v) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps, Example: Hitchcock movies horripilate me |
| Horrible | a. [ OE. horrible, orrible, OF. horrible, orrible, F. horrible, fr. L. horribilis, fr. horrere. See Horror. ] Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton. |
| Horribleness | n. The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. [ 1913 Webster ] The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horribly | adv. In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horrid | a. [ L. horridus. See Horror, and cf. Ordure. ] Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] Not in the legions The horrid things they say. Pope. |
| Horridly | adv. In a horrid manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horridness | n. The quality of being horrid. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horrific | a. [ L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See Horror, -fy. ] Causing horror; frightful. [ 1913 Webster ] Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horrification | n. That which causes horror. [ R. ] Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Horrify | v. t. |
| Horripilation | n. [ L. horripilatio, fr. horripilare to bristle; horrere to bristle + pilus the hair: cf. F. horripilation. ] (Med.) A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] |