Reverse Dictionary: HORRID, HORRIFY, HORROR

ADJECTIVES
► CREEPY said of something producing an uncanny feeling of horror or repugnance → 1883 sl.
► CURDLING causing terror or horror; frightening or unnerving → 1773 
► EFFROYABLE dreadful, frightful, terrifying, horrifying, appalling → 1689 obs.
► EXECRABLE piteous, horrifying, shocking → 1490 obs.
► GASHFUL ghastly, horrid → 1620 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GASHLY ghastly, horrid → 1633 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GRISLY causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to bear; causing unpleasant feelings; of forbidding appearance; grim ghastly → 1150 arch.
► GRUEFUL fearful, horror-struck → 1880 
► HORRESCENT shuddering with fear; expressing or showing horror → 1865 
► HORRIOUS causing horror, horrible → 1520 obs.
► MINGIN ► MINGING smelly, disgusting, ugly, horrid, putrid, gross → 20C playground sl.
► RAKED having suffered an horrific experience → 1980s US students’ sl.
► SCROOGY uncanny, horrid, weird → 1911 Amer. dial.
► UGGED horrid, loathsome → 1570 obs.
► UGLISOME horrible, horrid; ugly → 1530 obs.
► UNKED ► UNKERD ► UNKID weird, uncanny; insane; ominous of evil; horrid, ghastly, terrible → 1861 Eng. dial.

INTERJECTIONS/PHRASES
​► CRIVENS! expression of surprise, shock, horror, or astonishment → 1917 
► GOOD HEAVENS! expresses surprise, horror, etc. → 1752 
► GRACIOUS HEAVEN! expresses surprise, horror, etc. → 1801 
► GREAT HEAVEN! expresses surprise, horror, etc. → 1887 
► HEAVEN AND EARTH! expresses surprise, horror, etc. → 1777 
► HEAVENS! expresses surprise, horror, etc. → 1588 
► IT GROWLS ME I have a feeling of terror or horror → 1482 obs.
► JESUS WEPT! an exclamation of annoyance, amazement, horror → 1922 
► OHMIGOD! ► OMIGOD! used for expressing surprise or horror → 1982 US sl.
► THAT GIVES ME THE SCREAMING ABDABS that fills be with horror, disgust, or abhorrence → 1966 

NOUNS
► AGHASTMENT shock, horror → 1860 
► AGHASTNESS horror → 1845 
► CHILLER a melodrama; a horror story or thriller → 20C Amer. sl.
► CREEPS, THE a feeling of repugnance or fear; the unease felt in the presence of a ‘creepy’ person or in a spooky place; a feeling of horror caused by something uncanny → 1879 sl.
► GRISING terror, horror, dread; loathing → 1225 obs.
► GRISLE horror; terror → 1225 obs.
► GRISNESS terror, horror, dread → 1398 obs.
► HORRIDITY a being horrid; horridness; something horrid → 1641
► SCREAMING ABDABS the horrors; utter disgust; abhorrence → 1950s sl.
► UGGING dread, fear, horror, loathing → 1250 
► UGLINESS horror, dread, loathing → 1325 obs.
► UGRINESS horror → 1375 Sc. obs.

VERBS
► AGONISE to  frighten, to fill with horror → 1897 
► CURL A PERSON’S HAIR to horrify, to frighten → 1949 
► GRISE to shudder or tremble with terror; to be full of horror, greatly afraid → 1225 obs.
► GRUE to feel terror or horror, to shudder, to tremble; to quake; to be troubled in heart → 1330 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GRYE to shudder, to feel horror → 1300 obs.
► HIDOUS to feel horror, to dread, to abhor → 1382 obs.