Why is it that the words horrifying and terrifying are synonyms, and so are horrible and terrible, but the words horrific and terrific are totally different?

Jun 30, 2015ย ยท 19 votes, 23 comments. For example, lightning. It's gorgeous but terrifying at the same time. The only word that is springing to mind is awesome, butโ€ฆ

Aug 12, 2019ย ยท I know speech is already a powerful perk in New Vegas, but Terrifying Presence turns the most hardened characters into marshmallows.

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Mar 19, 2024ย ยท Nonexistence is terrifying. Thatโ€™s why I think most of us suck so much at life; we have PTSD from an eternity of not being, and the next thing you know weโ€™re told we have to go back there โ€ฆ

Words like Terrible, Terrific, Terrifying all relate to each other. Horror, from the latin Horrere, to shudder, is The During. In the context of this tool, Horror is the seizing despair, the feeling of hopeless โ€ฆ

r/oddlyterrifying: A place for pictures and videos that are not the ordinary type of terrifying, but oddly terrifying.

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