[Past Your Eyes]

How come everything lately has to be “horrific”? It’s not even a real word.

[JohnG45]

How come everything lately has to be “horrific”? It’s not even a real word.

Huh? See below.

hor·rif·ic (hô-rfk, h-) adj.

Causing horror; terrifying.

[Latin horrificus : horrre, to tremble + -ficus, -fic.] hor·rifi·cal·ly adv.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

[Paved Paradise]

Well, Merriam Webster thinks so. It has a definition, as does Dictionary.com. Where’ve you been?