What is another word for frightening?
638 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fɹˈa͡ɪtənɪŋ], [ fɹˈaɪtənɪŋ], [ f_ɹ_ˈaɪ_t_ə_n_ɪ_ŋ]
Frightening is a word that describes something that causes great fear or terror. There are many synonyms for this word such as terrifying, alarming, terrifying, scaring, intimidating, petrifying, chilling, hair-raising, spine-tingling, unnerving, and creepy. All these words have different levels of intensity but they all convey a sense of fear or terror. Terrifying and petrifying are the most intense synonyms as they suggest extreme fear or horror. Unnerving, chilling, and creepy have more subtle connotations but still imply the ability to cause fear or discomfort. Ultimately, the choice of word will depend on the context and the intended level of fear.
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Similar words for frightening:
- fearsome (adjective)
- hair-raising (adjective)
- macabre (adjective)
- threatening (adjective)
- unspeakable (adjective)
- alarming (adjective)
- appalling (adjective)
- awesome (adjective)
- creepy (adjective)
- disturbing (adjective)
- eerie (adjective)
- fierce (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- ghastly (adjective)
- ghoulish (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- indefinable (adjective)
- inexpressible (adjective)
- intimidating (adjective)
- menacing (adjective)
- redoubtable (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- undescribable (adjective)
- unearthly (adjective)
- unhospitable (adjective)
- unsettling (adjective)
- unutterable (adjective)
- upsetting (adjective)
- act (noun)
- intimidation (noun)
- alarming (verb)
- frightening (verb)
- threatening (verb)
Synonyms for Frightening:
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adj.
• fearsome • hair-raising • macabre • threatening- Browbeating ,
- Hinting ,
- Looming ,
- admonishing ,
- bullying ,
- foreboding ,
- forewarning ,
- intimidating ,
- scary ,
- threatening ,
- tormenting ,
- warning .
- Ender ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis maying ,
- dis-heartening ,
- dis-maying ,
- endest ,
- grodier ,
- grodiest ,
- more daunting ,
- more disheartening ,
- more dismaying ,
- more petrifying ,
- more scaring ,
- more unnerving ,
- most daunting ,
- most disheartening ,
- most dismaying ,
- most petrifying ,
- most scaring ,
- most unnerving ,
- un nerving ,
- un-nerving .
- awe inspiring ,
- aweinspiring ,
- grandest ,
- impressive ,
- mind blowing ,
- mindblowing ,
- more horrifying ,
- more nervous ,
- more stupefying ,
- most horrifying ,
- most stupefying ,
- over whelming ,
- over-whelming ,
- striking .
- dis gusting ,
- dis-gusting ,
- more itching ,
- more shuddersome ,
- most itching ,
- most shuddersome ,
- un pleasant ,
- un-pleasant .
- Harassing ,
- de pressing ,
- de-pressing ,
- dis comforting ,
- dis composing ,
- dis concerting ,
- dis-comforting ,
- dis-composing ,
- dis-concerting ,
- embarrassing ,
- impeding ,
- in convenient ,
- in-convenient ,
- more aggravating ,
- more agitating ,
- more discomforting ,
- more discommoding ,
- more discomposing ,
- more disconcerting ,
- more harassing ,
- more impeding ,
- more troubling ,
- more vexing ,
- most aggravating ,
- most agitating ,
- most discomforting ,
- most discommoding ,
- most discomposing ,
- most disconcerting ,
- most harassing ,
- most impeding ,
- most troubling ,
- most vexing ,
- troubling .
- crawlier ,
- crawliest ,
- scarier ,
- super natural ,
- super-natural ,
- un cannier ,
- un canniest ,
- un canny ,
- un-cannier ,
- un-canniest ,
- un-canny .
- Flipped ,
- apest ,
- enraged ,
- feller ,
- fellest ,
- howling ,
- in tense ,
- in tenser ,
- in-tense ,
- in-tenser ,
- in-tensest ,
- more brutish ,
- more flipped ,
- more howling ,
- more tigerish ,
- most brutish ,
- most flipped ,
- most howling ,
- most tigerish ,
- murderous ,
- raging ,
- tumultous tumultuous ,
- tumultous-tumultuous ,
- tumultoustumultuous ,
- un controllable ,
- un tamed ,
- un-controllable ,
- un-tamed ,
- untamed ,
- venomous .
- dis agreeable ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- fore boding ,
- fore-boding ,
- more foreboding ,
- more glowering ,
- more off putting ,
- more off-putting ,
- more offputting ,
- most foreboding ,
- most glowering ,
- most off putting ,
- most off-putting ,
- most offputting ,
- off putting ,
- offputting ,
- un approachable ,
- un friendlier ,
- un friendliest ,
- un-approachable ,
- un-friendlier ,
- un-friendliest ,
- un-friendly ,
- unapproachable .
- more corpselike ,
- more mortuary ,
- more wraithlike ,
- most corpselike ,
- most mortuary ,
- most wraithlike ,
- un-natural .
- de monic ,
- de-monic ,
- more spine chilling ,
- more spine-chilling ,
- more spinechilling ,
- most spine chilling ,
- most spine-chilling ,
- most spinechilling ,
- spine chilling ,
- spinechilling .
- more intimidatory ,
- more louring ,
- more minacious ,
- more overhanging ,
- most intimidatory ,
- most louring ,
- most minacious ,
- most overhanging ,
- over hanging ,
- over-hanging ,
- overhanging .
- bad tempered ,
- badtempered ,
- co wing ,
- co-wing ,
- in human ,
- in-human ,
- in-humane ,
- more browbeating ,
- more cowing ,
- more invective ,
- more vituperous ,
- most browbeating ,
- most cowing ,
- most invective ,
- most vituperous .
- extra-ordinary ,
- hyper physical ,
- hyper-physical ,
- more demoniac ,
- more hyperphysical ,
- more phantom ,
- most demoniac ,
- most hyperphysical ,
- most phantom ,
- not of world ,
- not this world ,
- not world ,
- sub lime ,
- sub-lime ,
- super-human ,
- un earthlier ,
- un earthliest ,
- un earthly ,
- un godlier ,
- un godliest ,
- un godly ,
- un holier ,
- un holiest ,
- un holy ,
- un reasonable ,
- un-earthlier ,
- un-earthliest ,
- un-earthly ,
- un-godlier ,
- un-godliest ,
- un-godly ,
- un-holier ,
- un-holiest ,
- un-holy ,
- un-reasonable .
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n.
• act • intimidation -
v.
• alarming • frightening • threatening Other synonyms:
- bloodcurdling ,
- chilling ,
- creepy ,
- eerie ,
- fierce ,
- freaky ,
- ghoulish ,
- gloomy ,
- heart-stopping ,
- macabre ,
- menacing ,
- nightmarish ,
- spine-tingling ,
- spooky ,
- stomach-churning ,
- stygian ,
- unthinkable ,
- white-knuckle .
- chill .
Other relevant words:
- Affrighting ,
- Bluffing ,
- Cowing ,
- Crawly ,
- Deterring ,
- Direly ,
- Dreading ,
- Feared ,
- Fearing ,
- Fiendish ,
- Hectoring ,
- Incommunicable ,
- Overawing ,
- Palling ,
- Unhospitable ,
- Villainies ,
- abhorrent ,
- abominable ,
- abysmally ,
- affecting ,
- affray ,
- agonizing ,
- amazing ,
- anxious ,
- appall ,
- appalling ,
- appallingly ,
- astonishing ,
- astounding ,
- atrocious ,
- atrociously ,
- awe-inspiring ,
- awed ,
- awesome ,
- awesomely ,
- awful ,
- awfully ,
- awing ,
- badly ,
- blood-curdling ,
- breathtaking ,
- browbeat ,
- brutal ,
- brutally ,
- cadaverous ,
- cast down ,
- chancy ,
- chillingly ,
- close ,
- confoundedly ,
- cow ,
- cowardly ,
- critical ,
- cruelly ,
- dampen ,
- dangerous ,
- dashing ,
- daunt ,
- daunting ,
- deadly ,
- deathlike ,
- deathly ,
- demonic ,
- demoralization ,
- demoralize ,
- demoralizing ,
- depress ,
- depressing ,
- desperate ,
- desperately ,
- deter ,
- deterrent ,
- devilish ,
- diabolical ,
- dire ,
- direful ,
- dirtily ,
- disagreeable ,
- disconcert ,
- disconcerting ,
- discourage ,
- discouraging ,
- disgusting ,
- disgustingly ,
- dishearten ,
- disheartening ,
- dispirit ,
- dispiriting ,
- disquieting ,
- distressing ,
- dread ,
- dreaded ,
- dreadful ,
- dreadfully ,
- evil ,
- exasperating ,
- extraordinarily ,
- faze ,
- fear ,
- fearful ,
- fearfully ,
- fearfulness ,
- fearsome ,
- fearsomely ,
- ferociously ,
- ferociousness ,
- ferocity ,
- fiercely ,
- flagitious ,
- formidable ,
- foul ,
- foully ,
- frighten ,
- frightful ,
- frightfully ,
- frustrating ,
- ghastly ,
- ghostlike ,
- ghostly ,
- gory ,
- grave ,
- gravely ,
- grievous ,
- grievously ,
- grim ,
- grisly ,
- grossly ,
- grotesque ,
- gruesome ,
- gruesomely ,
- hair-raising ,
- hairbreadth ,
- hairy ,
- harden ,
- hardly ,
- harshly ,
- hazardous ,
- heart-rending ,
- heartbreakingly ,
- heavily ,
- heinous ,
- hideous ,
- hideously ,
- horrendous ,
- horrendously ,
- horrible ,
- horribly ,
- horrid ,
- horridly ,
- horrific ,
- horrifically ,
- horrify ,
- horrifyingly ,
- impending ,
- imposing ,
- incredible ,
- indefinable ,
- inexpressible ,
- infernally ,
- iniquitous ,
- intimidate ,
- jarring ,
- kafkaesque ,
- lacking courage ,
- loathsome ,
- louring ,
- lowering ,
- lurid ,
- luridly ,
- malefic ,
- maleficent ,
- malevolent ,
- marvellous ,
- meanly ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- monstrosity ,
- monstrous ,
- monstrously ,
- morbid ,
- moving ,
- mysterious ,
- nastily ,
- nasty ,
- nauseating ,
- nauseous ,
- nerve-racking ,
- nerve-wracking ,
- offensive ,
- ominous ,
- ominously ,
- outrageous ,
- outrageously ,
- overwhelming ,
- painful ,
- paralysing ,
- perilous ,
- petrify ,
- poorly ,
- precarious ,
- psychological warfare ,
- quell ,
- rarely ,
- redoubtable ,
- reduce ,
- repellent ,
- repugnant ,
- repulsive ,
- repulsively ,
- revolting ,
- revoltingly ,
- risky ,
- sadly ,
- savage ,
- scandalously ,
- sensitive ,
- serious ,
- seriously ,
- severe ,
- severely ,
- shockingly ,
- shuddery ,
- sickening ,
- sickeningly ,
- singularly ,
- sinister ,
- spectral ,
- spine-chilling ,
- spooking ,
- staggering ,
- staggeringly ,
- startle ,
- sternly ,
- stirring ,
- strange ,
- stressful ,
- stun ,
- stunning ,
- stupefying ,
- subdue ,
- tense ,
- terrible ,
- terribly ,
- terrific ,
- terrifically ,
- terrify ,
- terrifyingly ,
- terrorisation ,
- terrorise ,
- terrorising ,
- terrorization ,
- terrorize ,
- terrorizing ,
- ticklish ,
- timorous ,
- torturous ,
- touch-and-go ,
- touchy ,
- transgression ,
- traumatic ,
- tremendous ,
- trepid ,
- tricky ,
- troublous ,
- truculent ,
- ugly ,
- unbearably ,
- unbelievable ,
- uncanny ,
- uncertain ,
- undescribable ,
- unnerve ,
- unpleasantly ,
- unsettling ,
- unspeakable ,
- unspeakably ,
- unsure ,
- unutterable ,
- upsetting ,
- vexing ,
- vile ,
- vilely ,
- villainous ,
- villainy ,
- war of nerves ,
- weird ,
- wicked ,
- wickedly ,
- wonderful ,
- wondrous ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- worryingly .
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How to use "Frightening" in context?
things
There are plenty of frightening things in the world. From haunted houses to the paranormal, these are some of the scariest things out there. While most of these things are not real, some can be quite jarring and cause a lot of fear. Here are ten of the most frightening things in the world.
10. Nightmarish hallucinations can be one of the most frightening things a person can experience. These can be anything from spiders to dark beings.
9. Death is one of the most frightening things there is.
Paraphrases for Frightening:
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Adjective
abhorrent, afraid, amazing, astounding, atrocious, awesome, breathtaking, challenging, dire, disgusting, dramatic, dreaded, eerie, egregious, fearful, formidable, ghastly, grim, hairy, harrowing, heinous, hideous, horrid, impressive, incredible, phenomenal, redoubtable, scared, sinister, sobering, spectacular, spooky, stunning, surprising, terrific, threatening, worried, wretched.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
abominable, appalling, astonishing, awful, chilling, creepy, daunting, deadly, devastating, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, freaky, frightened, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, ominous, outrageous, shocking, staggering, startling, striking, terrible, tremendous, troubling, ugly, worrisome, worrying, unsettling.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Scaring.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
scares.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Frightening:
n.
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act
bullying, intimidation.
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