If you describe something as horrific, you mean that it is so big that it is extremely unpleasant. piling up horrific extra amounts of money on top of your original debt. = horrendous + horrifically hor·rifi·cal·ly Opera productions are horrifically expensive. extremely bad, in a way that is frightening or upsetting = horrifying horrific crash/accident/attack etc
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
If you describe a physical attack, accident, or injury as horrific, you mean that it is very bad, so that people are shocked when they see it or think about it. I have never seen such horrific injuries = horrendous + horrifically hor·rifi·cal·ly He had been horrifically assaulted before he died