Word Meanings - HORRIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HORRIFY)
- Appal
- Affright
- alarm
- terrify
- scare
- daunt
- cow
- shock
- frighten
- discouraged
- dishearten
- horrify
- dismay
- astound
- Petrify
- Astound
- electrify
- appal
- stun
- stupefy
- dumbfounder
- Shock
- Surprise
- disgust
- offend
- appall
- shame
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HORRIFY)
Related words: (words related to HORRIFY)
- OFFENDANT
An offender. Holland. - ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - SHAMEFAST
Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 . - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - DISCOURAGING
Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. - DAUNTER
One who daunts. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - DISHEARTENMENT
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. - SHOCKDOG
See 1 - APPALACHIAN
Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. Note: The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the heighboring Indians. Am. Cyc. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens. - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - APPALL
1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only - AFFRIGHTFUL
Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - SHOCK-HEADED
Having a thick and bushy head of hair. - EMBOLDENER
One who emboldens. - ALARMABLE
Easily alarmed or disturbed. - SUTURALLY
In a sutural manner. - CENTRALLY
In a central manner or situation. - UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - UNDAUNTABLE
Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall. - PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - ORALLY
1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher. - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.