Frightful

Word FRIGHTFUL
Character 9
Hyphenation fright ful
Pronunciations /ˈfɹaɪtfəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Frightful"

What do we mean by frightful?

Causing disgust or shock; horrifying. adjective

Causing fright; terrifying. adjective

Excessive; extreme. adjective

Disagreeable; distressing. adjective

Full of occasion for fright; causing or apt to excite alarm or terror; terrible; dreadful: as, a frightful chasm; a frightful tempest.

Intolerable; shocking; hideous.

Full of terror; fearful; alarmed.

Synonyms Dreadful, Fearful, etc. (see awful); alarming, terrific, horrible, shocking.

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. adjective

Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking. adjective

: Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. adjective

Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. adjective

Used as an intensifier adjective

Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact adjective

Provoking horror adjective

Extremely distressing adjective

Full of fright, whether

Full of something causing fright, whether

Synonyms and Antonyms for Frightful

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The word "frightful" in example sentences

Costumed Tastoanes in frightful masks battle Saint James in a ritual dance each year on July 25th. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His eyes were bright and glassy, and their expression frightful to look upon. ❋ Henry J. Horn (N/A)

Some are suspended to the vaulted roof by chains, and in frightful-looking positions; others are on the perpendicular walls. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

Had a revolutionary change not taken place in our country, our situation now and in the years ahead would have been terrible, and we can understand perfectly that the situation in the years ahead will be terrible in countries which still find themselves in the situation Cuba was in, and even worse: millions of illiterates, a lack of technicians, a shortage of schools, a scarcity of educational and health facilities -- in short, frightful conditions that are well known to Cubans who were familiar with our own past here in all its aspects. ❋ Unknown (1966)

We've seen some pretty middling horrible things already, and if these two men of ours call the frightful things we have seen normal, and are planning on deliberately hunting up things that even they will consider monstrous, you and I most certainly shall stay at home! " ❋ Hans Waldemar Wessolowski (1927)

M. Anciot, and describes as a frightful old hunchback. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Van Helsing had not intended to recall her frightful experience. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No one who recalls the frightful provisions of the penal acts of ❋ Diocese Of Connecticut (N/A)

Do not we who go about our business in the brilliance of the morning sometimes linger to recall the frightful setting of the sun? ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

Only too clearly he remembered the first time he and Beatrice had been thrust into this weird community, bound and captive; with only too vivid distinctness he recalled the frightful indignities, perils and hardships inflicted on them. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

This time they had in their midst a huge black tom-cat, fiercer and more terrible than all the rest, which the young warrior had no difficulty in knowing as the frightful mountain fiend himself. ❋ Various (1896)

Every one can recall frightful instances of plunder, in which he was the victim, at New York -- in which the robbery had none of the neatness of an operation, as it often has in Italy, but was a brutal mutilation. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Then when I recalled the frightful blaze and noise of that night, I began to realise what my rescue must have meant to any one. ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

"Such a grave is better than the plague-pit," rejoined Leonard, recalling the frightful scenes he had witnessed there. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

The fact is, my life has been black with care and toil, -- labor above board and far worse labor below; -- I have hardly had a heavier year (overloaded too with a kind of "health" which may be called frightful): to "burn my own smoke" in some measure, has really been all I was up to; and except on sheer immediate compulsion I have not written a word to any creature. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Alone now, in the principal apartment of the house, she paced its narrow boundaries with tremulous and agitated steps: she recalled the frightful suit of Nicot, -- the injurious taunt of Glyndon; and she sickened at the remembrance of the hollow applauses which, bestowed on the actress, not the woman, only subjected her to contumely and insult. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Religion tells us of a hell; that is, a frightful abode, where, notwithstanding his goodness, God reserves infinite torments for the majority of men. ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

There have been societies in the past in whose name frightful injustice has been committed, but at least within some of them, genuine, angry and determined left-wing protest took place - of the sort that requires personal risk and courage, and which is not limited to action within the cozy consensus. ❋ Paul Woodward (2010)

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