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frightening
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frighten \Fright"en\, v. t. [imp. Frightened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Frightening .] [See Fright , v. t.] To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. --Old Proverb.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ As he grows older he becomes more grotesque and therefore more frightening and effective in his second role. ▪ That was why Everett, suddenly, seemed more real, more frightening than usual. ▪ Food is more ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 2 (context figuratively English) awful, terrible, very bad. v (present participle of frighten English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715, present participle adjective from frighten (v.). Related: Frighteningly .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; ...
Usage examples of frightening.
Brutus and his men that night Achates was born, only infinitely more frightening, more murderous.
And Adam suddenly realized that an emotionless, indifferent Amaranth was not the most frightening thing he could think of.
Only the monstrous, frightening head, with pointed ears aprick, hanging there immobile.
What eyes-and-ears reported from Altara and Arad Doman was all confusion, and the few reports beginning to seep out of Tarabon again were frightening.
It takes Marie and Dougal two full days to find decent belay points for the hundred and fifty metres of the band, and every morning the rockfall is frequent and frightening.
Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.
At mention of Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.
Twice they were intercepted, but Bunion dispatched the attackers with a swiftness that was frightening.
It was all so pleasant, and every day was so full of excitement, that it went to his head, and if he was sometimes seized by panic, and felt himself to be careering along at a pace he could no longer control, such frightening moments could not endure when Chuffy was summoning him to come and try the paces of a capital goer, or Jack Carnaby carrying him off to the theatre, or the Five-courts, or the Daffy Club.
By the third week he found his comates no more frightening than if they had been stricken by consumption or cancer.
More frightening, Sysquemalyn vacillated between sane and insane, shrieking one minute, cooing the next as if playing her own games.
Rules out the possibility of frightening off the defector before the fucker has a chance to give us his name, rank, and serial number.
She took Ventura Boulevard the rest of the way, encountered gridlock, foul tempers, distracted cell phone gabbers, some truly frightening risk-taking.
By degrees he approaches nearer and nearer, until at length the sight of him has become so familiar that he can advance to stroke his tame gayals on the back and neck without frightening the wild ones.
Karen Reading was telling the truth: my grandma was always frightening us with ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night.