Words and phrases that have a meaning related to frightening: (119 results)
Often used in the same context:
terrifying, scary, horrifying, unnerving, unsettling, shocking, disconcerting, disturbing, horrific, distressing, chilling, startling, surreal, alarming, disquieting, sickening, troubling, nightmarish, harrowing, sobering, worrisome, disorienting, discomforting, bizarre, strange, dangerous, devastating, horrendous, depressing, unpleasant, jarring, gruesome, frightful, petrifying, horrible, ghastly, freaky, terrible, disheartening, eerie, nauseating, ominous, saddening, scarey, appalling, grotesque, baffling, creepy, unreal, dreadful, weird, heartbreaking, perplexing, dismaying, hellish, fascinating, dispiriting, traumatic, painful, comical, surprising, hideous, infuriating, disgusting, comforting, menacing, bewildering, grim, unfathomable, discombobulating, nasty, perilous, incomprehensible, fearsome, laughable, ghoulish, revolting, sinister, fearful, scared, sad, astonishing, puzzling, apocalyptic, spooky, repulsive, mortifying, insidious, frustrating, monstrous, daunting, haunting, exhilarating, grisly, demoralizing, queasy, outrageous, mystifying, hysterical, unimaginable, ridiculous, brutal, saddest, strangest
Appears in the definition of:
apparition, freaky, frighten, hairy, scaremonger, stirrer
More general:
bullying, intimidation
Synonyms:
Also try:awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, terrorisation, terrorization
— Nouns for frightening: experience, thing, prospect, thought, experiences, situation, dreams, place, aspect, things, speed, more...
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