HORRIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horrified mean? 

• HORRIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective HORRIFIED has 1 sense:

1. stricken with horror

  Familiarity information: HORRIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORRIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stricken with horror

Synonyms:

horrified; horror-stricken; horror-struck

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

I was, as you may think, Watson, horrified at this unexpected news.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were pulling up, at any rate, horrified at the accident; and I soon saw what they were.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For a long time we sat in horrified silence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Horrified by what she had done, she rushed wildly away from the scene of the tragedy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Were you not amazed, nay horrified, when I would not let Arthur kiss his love—though she was dying—and snatched him away by all my strength?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Everybody in Ruth's family looked up to Judge Blount as a man of power and achievement, and they were horrified at Martin's outbreak.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was horrified for I had heard nothing of his illness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, please don't bring her!” said Dora, giving me a horrified little kiss, and folding her hands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That night he looked as if he would like the fun of quizzing her figures and pretending to be horrified at her extravagance, as he often did, being particularly proud of his prudent wife.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)