It was frightful when my car skidded on the ice.
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Frightful
//ˈfɹaɪtfəl//
Synonyms for "frightful" (114 found)
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deterringdiredisagreeabledisconcertingdiscouragingdishearteningdismayingdisquietingdreadfulfear inspiringfear-inspiringfearfulfearsomeforbiddingformidablefoulfrighteningghastlygrimgrisly
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4 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 14 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δασπλῆτις adj (full of that which causes fright)
Bulgarian
3 entries- страшен adj (full of that which causes fright)
- ужасен adj (full of that which causes fright)
- уплашен adj (full of fright)
Esperanto
1 entries- timiga adj (full of that which causes fright)
French
1 entries- effrayant adj (full of fright)
Galician
1 entries- aterrador adj (full of fright)
German
1 entries- furchtbar adj (full of that which causes fright)
Hindi
1 entries- भयानक adj (full of that which causes fright)
Irish
1 entries- scanrúil adj (full of that which causes fright)
Latin
1 entries- metūculōsus adj (full of that which causes fright)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- forchtsom adj (full of that which causes fright)
- schrakjlich adj (full of that which causes fright)
Portuguese
1 entries- assustador adj (full of fright)
Sanskrit
2 entries- घोर adj (full of that which causes fright)
- भीष्म adj (full of that which causes fright)
Spanish
1 entries- temible adj (full of that which causes fright)
Turkish
4 entries- dehşet adj (full of that which causes fright)
- korku dolu adj (full of fright)
- korkulu adj (full of fright)
- korkunç adj (full of that which causes fright)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I was filled with frightful sorrow for her.
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Gold gives an air of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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