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Adjective horrifying has 1 sense
- atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly - provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
Antonym: unalarming (indirect, via alarming)
Verb horrify has 1 sense
- dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify - fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
--1 is one way to frighten, fright, scare, affright
Sample sentence:
The bad news will horrify him
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