Synonyms for Frightening:

• adj.

  •alarming (adjective)
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting.
  •appalling (adjective)
  • grodier,
  • grodiest,
  • most unnerving,
  • more disheartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • most petrifying,
  • un-nerving,
  • more petrifying,
  • dis-maying,
  • more daunting,
  • dis maying,
  • more scaring,
  • endest,
  • dis-heartening,
  • Ender,
  • more dismaying,
  • most scaring,
  • more unnerving,
  • dis heartening,
  • un nerving,
  • most daunting,
  • most dismaying.
  •awesome (adjective)
  • mind blowing,
  • most stupefying,
  • striking,
  • grandest,
  • more stupefying,
  • mindblowing,
  • aweinspiring,
  • awe inspiring,
  • over-whelming,
  • more nervous,
  • over whelming,
  • more horrifying,
  • impressive,
  • most horrifying.
  •creepy (adjective)
  • most shuddersome,
  • more itching,
  • dis-gusting,
  • dis gusting,
  • un pleasant,
  • more shuddersome,
  • un-pleasant,
  • most itching.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • hairy.
  •disturbing (adjective)
  • most agitating,
  • dis-concerting,
  • more discomposing,
  • in convenient,
  • dis concerting,
  • most discomposing,
  • most vexing,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most discommoding,
  • impeding,
  • more troubling,
  • more discommoding,
  • more harassing,
  • in-convenient,
  • most impeding,
  • most troubling,
  • more aggravating,
  • dis-composing,
  • troubling,
  • dis comforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • more discomforting,
  • most aggravating,
  • embarrassing,
  • de pressing,
  • most harassing,
  • dis composing,
  • dis-comforting,
  • more vexing,
  • de-pressing,
  • more impeding,
  • more agitating,
  • Harassing,
  • most disconcerting.
  •eerie (adjective)
  • crawliest,
  • un-cannier,
  • scarier,
  • super-natural,
  • crawlier,
  • un canny,
  • un canniest,
  • ghostly,
  • super natural,
  • un cannier,
  • un-canniest,
  • scary,
  • un-canny.
  •fearsome (adjective)
  • formidable,
  • fearsome,
  • disheartening,
  • daunting,
  • rebarbative.
  •fierce (adjective)
  • murderous,
  • howling,
  • Flipped,
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • more howling,
  • venomous,
  • un controllable,
  • un-tamed,
  • most brutish,
  • most howling,
  • most flipped,
  • in-tense,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • most tigerish,
  • in tenser,
  • more flipped,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • fellest,
  • apest,
  • more brutish,
  • raging,
  • feller,
  • untamed,
  • un tamed,
  • more tigerish,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tensest,
  • un-controllable,
  • enraged,
  • in tense.
  •forbidding (adjective)
  • un friendlier,
  • un friendliest,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most glowering,
  • un-friendlier,
  • unapproachable,
  • most off-putting,
  • un-friendly,
  • fore boding,
  • un-approachable,
  • most off putting,
  • more glowering,
  • off putting,
  • most foreboding,
  • more offputting,
  • dis agreeable,
  • more foreboding,
  • more off putting,
  • most offputting,
  • more off-putting,
  • offputting,
  • fore-boding,
  • un approachable,
  • un-friendliest.
  •ghastly (adjective)
  • most mortuary,
  • more mortuary,
  • more corpselike,
  • grisly,
  • most wraithlike,
  • more wraithlike,
  • un-natural,
  • most corpselike.
  •ghoulish (adjective)
  • spine chilling,
  • most spine chilling,
  • more spine chilling,
  • spinechilling,
  • more spinechilling,
  • de monic,
  • more spine-chilling,
  • most spine-chilling,
  • most spinechilling,
  • de-monic.
  •hair-raising (adjective)
  • cliff-hanging,
  • suspenseful.
  •incommunicable (adjective)
  • more description,
  • in-communicable,
  • most description,
  • in communicable.
  •indefinable (adjective)
  • in definable,
  • in-definable.
  •inexpressible (adjective)
  • in expressible,
  • in-expressible.
  •intimidating (adjective)
  • more pressuring,
  • most terrorizing,
  • most pressuring,
  • more terrorizing.
  •macabre (adjective)
  • spookish.
  •menacing (adjective)
  • more louring,
  • most minacious,
  • most overhanging,
  • most louring,
  • more intimidatory,
  • over hanging,
  • overhanging,
  • over-hanging,
  • more overhanging,
  • most intimidatory,
  • more minacious.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • louring,
  • distressing,
  • real gone,
  • dread,
  • unsettling,
  • Crawly,
  • extra ordinary,
  • ghoulish,
  • ghastly,
  • disturbing,
  • minacious,
  • menacing,
  • fierce,
  • defying description,
  • vituperous,
  • shuddersome,
  • spine-chilling,
  • troublous,
  • aper,
  • upsetting,
  • the end,
  • Intimidatory,
  • redoubtable,
  • wraithlike,
  • tigerish,
  • corpselike,
  • truculent,
  • macabre,
  • brutish,
  • grody,
  • hair-raising,
  • alarming,
  • Hyperphysical,
  • ghostlike,
  • perturbing,
  • unearthly,
  • demoniac,
  • something else,
  • appalling,
  • creepy,
  • inhumane,
  • off-putting,
  • not of this world,
  • zero cool,
  • bloodcurdling.
  •redoubtable (adjective)
  • re doubtable,
  • re-doubtable.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • Hinting,
  • threatening,
  • forewarning,
  • Looming,
  • intimidating,
  • admonishing,
  • tormenting,
  • warning,
  • Browbeating,
  • foreboding.
  •truculent (adjective)
  • badtempered,
  • more invective,
  • bad tempered,
  • more cowing,
  • most invective,
  • in-humane,
  • most browbeating,
  • more browbeating,
  • most vituperous,
  • more vituperous,
  • co wing,
  • most cowing,
  • co-wing,
  • in human,
  • in-human.
  •undescribable (adjective)
  • un describable,
  • un-describable.
  •unearthly (adjective)
  • un-earthliest,
  • un earthly,
  • super-human,
  • un-godliest,
  • most demoniac,
  • not world,
  • un godliest,
  • un-earthly,
  • un-earthlier,
  • un godly,
  • more demoniac,
  • most hyperphysical,
  • un holy,
  • un reasonable,
  • sub-lime,
  • un-holier,
  • un holier,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • more hyperphysical,
  • sub lime,
  • un earthlier,
  • un earthliest,
  • un-reasonable,
  • more phantom,
  • un-godlier,
  • un-holy,
  • un holiest,
  • most phantom,
  • hyper physical,
  • un-godly,
  • hyper-physical,
  • un-holiest,
  • un godlier,
  • not of world,
  • not this world.
  •unhospitable (adjective)
  • in hospitable,
  • un-inviting,
  • un hospitable,
  • un-hospitable,
  • in-hospitable,
  • un inviting.
  •unsettling (adjective)
  • un settling,
  • un-settling.
  •unspeakable (adjective)
  • beyond words.
  •unutterable (adjective)
  • un utterable,
  • un-utterable.
  •upsetting (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • up-setting.

• n.

  •
  • awesome.
  •
  • tense,
  • worrying,
  • stressful,
  • anxious,
  • grave,
  • serious,
  • severe.
  •act (noun)
  • terrorisation,
  • terrorization,
  • frightening.
  •dire (noun)
  • dire.
  •direful (noun)
  • direful.
  •dreaded (noun)
  • dreaded.
  •dreadful (noun)
  • dreadful.
  •fearful (noun)
  • fearful.
  •frightening (noun)
  • horrific,
  • horrendous,
  • terrible,
  • awful.
  •intimidation (noun)
  • threatenings,
  • dauntings,
  • demoralizings,
  • cowings,
  • de-moralizing,
  • terrorizings,
  • de moralizing,
  • frightenings,
  • co wings,
  • co-wings,
  • browbeatings.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • intimidation,
  • scare tactics,
  • bullying.

• v.

  •alarming (verb)
  • alerting,
  • signaling,
  • startling,
  • surprising,
  • dismaying,
  • shocking.
  •frightening (verb)
  • unnerving,
  • petrifying,
  • haunting,
  • panicking,
  • horrifying,
  • agitating,
  • setting on edge,
  • rattling,
  • terrifying,
  • harrowing.
  •threatening (verb)
  • Bulldozing,
  • Scaring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • stygian,
  • spine-tingling,
  • freaky,
  • spooky,
  • heart-stopping,
  • white-knuckle,
  • unthinkable,
  • gloomy,
  • nightmarish,
  • chilling,
  • eerie,
  • stomach-churning.
  •
  • forbidding,
  • frighteningly.
  •
  • chill.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • meanly,
  • sickening,
  • indefinable,
  • grossly,
  • close,
  • war of nerves,
  • sadly,
  • daunt,
  • grievously,
  • depress,
  • mysterious,
  • cadaverous,
  • appallingly,
  • unutterable,
  • impending,
  • fearsomely,
  • torturous,
  • iniquitous,
  • dashing,
  • nasty,
  • hardly,
  • jarring,
  • frustrating,
  • grim,
  • heart-rending,
  • terrify,
  • vilely,
  • cast down,
  • dampen,
  • awed,
  • unbelievable,
  • shuddery,
  • stun,
  • undescribable,
  • horrible,
  • revoltingly,
  • repellent,
  • malefic,
  • terrorize,
  • brutal,
  • startle,
  • unspeakably,
  • worryingly,
  • desperately,
  • precarious,
  • tremendous,
  • disagreeable,
  • badly,
  • affray,
  • awing,
  • frighten,
  • horribly,
  • ferociousness,
  • gravely,
  • touch-and-go,
  • gruesome,
  • depressing,
  • disconcert,
  • disquieting,
  • repulsively,
  • morbid,
  • demoralize,
  • luridly,
  • horrifyingly,
  • dishearten,
  • inexpressible,
  • dreadfully,
  • repulsive,
  • devilish,
  • timorous,
  • terrorising,
  • tricky,
  • ferocity,
  • chancy,
  • horrify,
  • heavily,
  • terrific,
  • Unhospitable,
  • amazing,
  • flagitious,
  • disgusting,
  • villainous,
  • shockingly,
  • marvellous,
  • fearfully,
  • trepid,
  • horridly,
  • staggering,
  • sternly,
  • critical,
  • nauseous,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • terrifically,
  • subdue,
  • deadly,
  • revolting,
  • risky,
  • reduce,
  • atrocious,
  • staggeringly,
  • singularly,
  • abhorrent,
  • sinister,
  • incredible,
  • uncertain,
  • quell,
  • repugnant,
  • confoundedly,
  • breathtaking,
  • fiercely,
  • cow,
  • moving,
  • petrify,
  • hideous,
  • traumatic,
  • evil,
  • unpleasantly,
  • maleficent,
  • agonizing,
  • Affrighting,
  • seriously,
  • fearfulness,
  • heartbreakingly,
  • nastily,
  • discourage,
  • villainy,
  • harden,
  • unsure,
  • demoralizing,
  • ugly,
  • atrociously,
  • wondrous,
  • overwhelming,
  • frightful,
  • intimidate,
  • touchy,
  • vexing,
  • unnerve,
  • faze,
  • spectral,
  • dangerous,
  • unbearably,
  • lowering,
  • awfully,
  • psychological warfare,
  • savage,
  • monstrosity,
  • Hectoring,
  • strange,
  • astounding,
  • scandalously,
  • extraordinarily,
  • awesomely,
  • horrifically,
  • appall,
  • terrorise,
  • hazardous,
  • Feared,
  • wonderful,
  • dispirit,
  • astonishing,
  • weird,
  • terrifyingly,
  • deathly,
  • horrendously,
  • nerve-racking,
  • painful,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • fear,
  • browbeat,
  • hideously,
  • cruelly,
  • minatory,
  • wickedly,
  • frightfully,
  • Cowing,
  • heinous,
  • Overawing,
  • diabolical,
  • stunning,
  • paralysing,
  • Incommunicable,
  • perilous,
  • desperate,
  • poorly,
  • imposing,
  • loathsome,
  • lacking courage,
  • ominous,
  • ominously,
  • infernally,
  • grievous,
  • abysmally,
  • vile,
  • demoralization,
  • worrisome,
  • deterrent,
  • ticklish,
  • affecting,
  • grotesque,
  • Palling,
  • discouraging,
  • deter,
  • gruesomely,
  • spooking,
  • offensive,
  • blood-curdling,
  • exasperating,
  • stirring,
  • deathlike,
  • outrageous,
  • Deterring,
  • transgression,
  • outrageously,
  • ferociously,
  • severely,
  • Direly,
  • Fiendish,
  • hairbreadth,
  • lurid,
  • brutally,
  • chillingly,
  • Villainies,
  • foul,
  • Bluffing,
  • monstrous,
  • sickeningly,
  • abominable,
  • horrid,
  • terribly,
  • sensitive,
  • stupefying,
  • monstrously,
  • disconcerting,
  • disgustingly,
  • demonic,
  • cowardly,
  • kafkaesque,
  • unspeakable,
  • Fearing,
  • foully,
  • malevolent,
  • dirtily,
  • rarely,
  • dispiriting,
  • wicked,
  • harshly,
  • nauseating,
  • Dreading,
  • uncanny,
  • terrorizing,
  • gory.

Paraphrases for Frightening:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    terrifying, scary, alarming, frightful, horrific, fearsome.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    scared, fearful, spooky, terrific, formidable, dire, dreaded, ghastly, afraid, hideous, grim, harrowing, disgusting, breathtaking, heinous, surprising, awesome, stunning, threatening, impressive, astounding, sobering, sinister, amazing, abhorrent, hairy, egregious, eerie, dramatic, atrocious, incredible, challenging, horrid, wretched, redoubtable, phenomenal, worried, spectacular.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    scaremongering, hiding, Fearing, Freaking, Bricking, chilling, shaking.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    horrifying, appalling, shocking, chilling, daunting, frightened, disturbing, startling, intimidating, dreadful, distressing, horrendous, creepy, worrying, troubling, staggering, disquieting, astonishing, awful, worrisome, gruesome, unsettling, ominous, freaky, devastating, striking, tremendous, terrible, outrageous, abominable, horrible, deadly, ugly.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    terrible, horrible.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Scaring.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    scares.

Antonyms for Frightening:

• adj.

  • fearsome
    comforting.
  • Other antonyms:
    soothing, pacifying, inviting, tranquilizing, lulling, calming, unalarming, reassuring, relaxing, consoling.

Hyponym for Frightening:

• n.

  • act
    bullying, intimidation.