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Meanings of frightening in English
Synonyms
Examples for "terrible"
Examples for "terrible"
1
The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
2
Elizabeth blushed and looked grave; to her the matter seemed too terrible.
3
His Eminence in scarlet is magnificent; his Eminence in gray is terrible.
4
Torches flashed in the boats that put off in the terrible search.
5
The news of the terrible insurrection of the catholics in Ireland followed.
1
The awful in the natural forces, moral and material, seems his element.
2
Southern Asia in general is the seat of awful images and associations.
3
Language which disguises the awful reality of war is often standard practice.
4
The road was in an awful state: it was deep in mud.
5
Never before had there been so awful a crisis in Jewish history.
1
We had reached a point where the dreadful partnership could not continue.
2
It was happening; in a dreadful form of slow-motion it was happening.
3
The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built.
4
Those dreadful tragedies have relevance to what is happening in Ireland today.
5
Nearly blind; dreadful pain; can do nothing to-day; no sleep last night.
1
It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
2
There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
3
A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
4
The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful.
5
And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
1
Then I finally ask the question to which I dread the answer.
2
I've certainly never seen an interviewee approach the photoshoot with greater dread.
3
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
4
I was struck with dread; the Queen then appeared in the balcony.
5
Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
1
My Dad was 'on duty' and received the dreaded call from work.
2
It's that dreaded time of year again in the US tax time.
3
The young Vito, however, felt a cold anger for the dreaded Fanucci.
4
The dreaded acronym is, of course, SAC - Special Areas of Conservation.
5
In company she dreaded contempt; and in solitude she only found anxiety.
1
In the right context, the scary-looking number may prove the Ivorian's point.
2
For a scary moment, I saw things from her point of view.
3
In fact it did it with just two scary words: higher taxes.
4
The US state of Louisiana is facing a very serious, scary threat.
5
Given the numbers, that's a scary thought for upcoming New England opponents.
1
For foreign investors who held French banknotes the situation was particularly dire.
2
All of this exacerbated the dire financial situation of the new government.
3
It's not going to result in dire consequences, but it's not good.
4
Wood said the United States wanted to help people in dire need.
5
He said most people understood that the situation in Iraq was dire.
1
They are at risk of human trafficking and horrific abuse and exploitation.
2
I just hope we do the work to right this horrific wrong.
3
Witnessing horrific health cases, one after the other, was a heartbreaking experience.
4
So far in the 99th Tour de France, nothing horrific has happened.
5
The video shows a horrific attack on a South African police officer.
1
In those days a doctor's office could indeed be a fearsome place.
2
The trailer must represent a large and fearsome change in their environment.
3
She says however fearsome it might look, the axe is not sharp.
4
Hizdahr's fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best.
5
It felt right somehow that Butters was trading on their fearsome reputation.
1
They're using that to gain political advantage out of a horrendous situation.
2
Earlier, we had read about the horrendous conditions of orphanages in Romania.
3
She was in Time City, in the middle of a horrendous mistake.
4
The horrendous details of the case are a gift to conspiracy theorists.
5
The 32-year-old Lynette Volschenk is the murdered victim of this horrendous crime.
1
The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
2
He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
3
At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
4
They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
5
In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
Usage of frightening in English
1
The words repeated in his mind, clear now, so clear-andso frightening.
2
It was an all-too-brief escape from the frightening reality of her situation.
3
A major criminal investigation is now under way into these frightening events.
4
For the first time for anybody going into that situation, it's frightening.
5
I've had a heart problem, so it was very difficult and frightening.
6
She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
7
He said it had the whole situation had been surreal and frightening.
8
The whole incident, which lasted about 30 minutes, was frightening, she said.
9
She needed his help, yet even at his weakest he was frightening.
10
She said having never seen a tornado before, the experience was frightening.
11
It applies to anything that is important, but difficult, important, but frightening.
12
Having never seen a tornado before, the experience was frightening, she said.
13
Too frightening. But we forget what we read when we were young.
14
The people of Guangdong, however, knew there was something frightening going on.
15
I succeeded in frightening him; he hurried to do what I ordered.
16
Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
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Frightening across language varieties
Ireland
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Australia
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United States of America
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