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English
Etymology
From horror + -some.
Pronunciation
Adjective
horrorsome (comparative more horrorsome, superlative most horrorsome)
- Characterised or marked by horror.
2001, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary:There are monsters and creatures with horrorsome features / And shapes to drive men to insanity.
2003, Mahendra Narayan Behera, Brownstudy on Heathenland:[...] the merciless massacres, plunders, outrages, rapes and abductions perpetrated by Islamic terrorists in India and in its frontiers for almost a thousand years stand as glaring examples of despicable and horrorsome human depravity, which extends to the twentyfirst century through Pakistan and its terrorist groups with more ferocity and terrific cruelty.