frightening
Meaning of frightening
verb
- To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
Avery puts a sheet over her head, pretending to be a ghost to frighten Emily.
- Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
- Awful, terrible, very bad.
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Hyphenation of frightening
fright-en-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- frightening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
frightening synonyms
Meaning awful:
awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Meaning terrorization:
Translation of frightening
- Italian: temibile, terribile, orribile
- French: terrible, effrayant
- Spanish: temible, terrible, horrible, espantoso, espantosa, fatal, horroroso, horrorosa
- German: furchtbar
Words that rhyme with frightening
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