What is another word for frightful?
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Pronunciation:
[ fɹˈa͡ɪtfə͡l], [ fɹˈaɪtfəl], [ f_ɹ_ˈaɪ_t_f_əl]
Semantically related words: fright, scared, horror, thriller, horror movie
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Similar words for frightful:
- all (adjective)
- appalling (adjective)
- awful (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- disgusting (adjective)
- dread (adjective)
- dreadful (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- ferocious (adjective)
- ghastly (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- grisly (adjective)
- gruesome (adjective)
- heinous (adjective)
- hideous (adjective)
- horrendous (adjective)
- horrible (adjective)
- horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
- horrid (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- indefinable (adjective)
- inexpressible (adjective)
- macabre (adjective)
- monstrous (adjective)
- offensive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- shocking (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- terrific (adjective)
- tremendous (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unattractive (adjective)
- undescribable (adjective)
- unspeakable (adjective)
- unutterable (adjective)
- vicious (adjective)
- extraordinary (noun)
- frightful (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- astonishing
- atrocious
- eerie
- phantom
- scary
- shocking
- spooky
Synonyms for Frightful:
adj.
• all (adjective) • appalling (adjective)- more unnerving,
- more dismaying,
- most unnerving,
- un nerving,
- most daunting,
- most dismaying,
- most petrifying,
- dis-heartening,
- dis maying,
- more petrifying,
- more scaring,
- most scaring,
- dis heartening,
- grodiest,
- most disheartening,
- endest,
- grodier,
- more daunting,
- un-nerving,
- more disheartening,
- dis-maying,
- Ender.
- more oppressing,
- re doubtable,
- portentous,
- ruinous,
- most oppressing,
- un-fortunate,
- re-doubtable,
- most scowling,
- un fortunate,
- more scowling.
- beastliest,
- most satiating,
- yucky,
- dis-gusting,
- most surfeiting,
- dis tasteful,
- de testable,
- shameless,
- dis-tasteful,
- nerdier,
- most sleazeball,
- nerdiest,
- more cloying,
- scuzziest,
- objectionable,
- yecchier,
- more satiating,
- yecchiest,
- scuzzier,
- more sleazeball,
- dis gusting,
- de-testable,
- more surfeiting,
- beastlier.
- un earthliest,
- un earthlier,
- sub-lime,
- hairraising,
- hair raising,
- un-earthly,
- over-whelming,
- over whelming,
- un-earthlier,
- un-earthliest,
- un earthly,
- sub lime.
- in human,
- untamed,
- un tamed,
- more brutish,
- most ravening,
- most wolfish,
- in humane,
- un-merciful,
- fellest,
- un-restrained,
- more wolfish,
- more tigerish,
- most brutish,
- un-tamed,
- un merciful,
- most tigerish,
- murderous,
- in-human,
- more ravening,
- feller,
- in-humane.
- super-natural,
- more wraithlike,
- most wraithlike,
- un-canniest,
- un-natural,
- more mortuary,
- most mortuary,
- un canniest,
- un-canny,
- most corpselike,
- un cannier,
- un-cannier,
- un canny,
- more corpselike,
- super natural.
- most foreboding,
- more glowering,
- un yielding,
- un-relenting,
- most glowering,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- fore boding,
- stern,
- more splenetic,
- most crabbed,
- un relenting,
- splenetic,
- in-exorable,
- most splenetic,
- in exorable,
- in tractable,
- in-tractable,
- un-yielding,
- more foreboding,
- fore-boding,
- forbidding.
- un-godlier,
- un kind,
- un-kind,
- un-kinder,
- un-godliest,
- un-holier,
- un-holiest,
- dis-agreeable,
- dis agreeable,
- un kinder,
- un kindest,
- un-holy,
- scarier,
- un holier,
- un-godly,
- un godliest,
- un godly,
- un holiest,
- un-kindest,
- un holy,
- un godlier,
- unholy.
- mis-created,
- dis graceful,
- most miscreated,
- in tolerable,
- un-usual,
- more teratoid,
- in-tolerable,
- more miscreated,
- dis-graceful,
- un usual,
- most teratoid,
- Miscreated,
- mis created.
- annoying,
- wrong,
- wicked,
- lewd,
- disagreeable,
- great,
- vile,
- insufferable,
- extreme.
- ferocious,
- great big,
- Teratoid,
- brutish,
- morbid,
- sleazeball,
- horrific,
- wolfish,
- ghostlike,
- appalling,
- terrific,
- grim,
- inhumane,
- nerdy,
- dreadful,
- tremendous,
- horrible,
- mondo,
- dread,
- shuddersome,
- fearful,
- terrible,
- yecchy,
- scuzzy,
- Lou,
- godawful,
- grody,
- corpselike,
- formidable,
- awful,
- ghastly,
- macabre,
- ugly,
- dire,
- sickie,
- hideous,
- disgusting,
- alarming,
- horrid,
- wraithlike,
- defying description,
- vicious,
- gruesome,
- horrifyin,
- tigerish,
- extra ordinary,
- ravening,
- shocking,
- the end.
- unwelcome,
- inconvenient,
- un welcome,
- most dreaded,
- un-welcome,
- in convenient,
- more dreaded,
- in-convenient.
- more humongous,
- blimpest,
- in-credible,
- most mondo,
- whalest,
- blimper,
- in credible,
- more whopper,
- most whopper,
- extra-ordinary,
- more mondo,
- most humongous,
- most cracking,
- whaler,
- more cracking.
- low-down,
- bad-looking,
- mis-shapen,
- lowdown,
- unattractive,
- Hard-featured,
- not much to look at,
- unbeautiful,
- unprepossessing.
n.
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•
- detestable,
- ominous,
- hair-raising,
- revolting,
- eerie,
- spooky,
- charming,
- demoralizing,
- inconceivable,
- grisly,
- repellent,
- weird,
- uncanny,
- sickening,
- disturbing,
- lurid,
- disquieting,
- harrowing,
- bloodcurdling.
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- calamitous,
- offensive.
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•
- fear,
- redoubtable.
- bad.
Other synonyms:
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- fierce.
How to use "Frightful" in context?
Frightening is an extremely powerful word. It can make someone feel very scared or nervous. It can make someone feel upset or scared. And it can make someone feel very unsafe. Some people use the word frighteningly to describe how they feel. Other people use frightening to describe what something is or what has happened. Frightening can be used to describe something that is happening now or something that happened in the past. Frightening can make someone feel very unsafe. It can also make someone feel scared or nervous. And it can make someone feel upset.
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