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horrified

horrified adjective: struck with horror. Also the simple past and past participle of horrify.

Adjective

horrified (comparative more horrified, superlative most horrified)

  1. Struck with horror.
    • No one was more horrified than Chauncey Goodrich, scion of an old, elite family in Hartford2003, John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, page 358

Also used as

horrified is also the simple past and past participle of horrify.

Forms of horrified

comparativemore horrified
superlativemost horrified

Words formed from horrified

Questions about horrified

What does horrified mean?
Horrified means struck with horror.
What part of speech is horrified?
Horrified is an adjective.

Words near horrified in the dictionary

  1. horrification
  2. horrifications
  3. horrificity
  4. horrifick
  5. horrificness
  6. horrified
  7. horrifiedly
  8. horrifier
  9. horrifiers
  10. horrifies
  11. horrify

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