What is the meaning of horrific?

adjective

• Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror.
  • usage: "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
  • synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous
• Causing fear or dread or terror.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible