horrify

Other forms of horrify

past tense or participle

horrified

present participle

horrifying·

third person

horrifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about horrify

What does horrify mean?

horrify means "fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised".

How many syllables are in horrify?

horrify has 3 syllables: hor-ri-fy. The stress falls on "hor". In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for horrify?

Close synonyms include dismay, alarm, appal, appall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horrify a common word?

horrify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with horrify?

72 words rhyme with horrify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.