Horripilating

Quick meaning: Horripilating is an adjective meaning Causing horripilation.

Meaning

Causing horripilation.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.
2. present participle and gerund of horripilate.

Example Sentences

I was sadly shocked, however, when he said he could prove that God hates the truth; the effect was horripilating.

But what could you do about bombs dropped on you from the air? Especially in the dead of night. The idea of being killed in your sleep by an enemy you'd never even seen was horripilating.

Always something of a timpani concerto among symphonies—besides the famous solos in the Scherzo there is the horripilating tattoo that all but drowns out the first movement recapitulation, […]

Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, […] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.

Synonyms for horripilating

Depending on context, synonyms include frightening.

Related Words

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