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Meanings of frightful in inglés
Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact.
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Examples for "horrible"
Examples for "horrible"
1
The moon had not risen; the atmosphere was plunged in horrible darkness.
2
The idea of a death in the treacherous quicksand was truly horrible.
3
Her whole appearance was horrible; the devil was once more in possession.
4
The shadows of the room grew menacing; the very silence became horrible.
5
These were horrible moments while the two hung trembling in the balance.
1
The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
2
It began to break out in ugly blisters; I was in despair.
3
Those are just the ugly parts they play in the present drama.
4
Take the thing away, sir: it is ugly; it has black eyes.
5
Just the toy-villages in boxes, uniform as graves and ugly as bricks-
1
Still, violence against women and girls persists and takes atrocious new forms.
2
Outside in the atrocious cold the whining malamutes crept nearer and nearer.
3
At this time the atrocious custom of head-hunting prevailed in the island.
4
It can't be stressed enough: John McCain was an atrocious presidential candidate.
5
He was an atrocious criminal was all that was said about him.
1
But Green Party environment spokeswoman Eugenie Sage said the idea was horrifying.
2
The sentence was both kind and horrifying the way he said it.
3
He can see the horrifying images far too clearly in his mind.
4
There will almost certainly be another trial, another set of horrifying revelations.
5
Adams launched into a rather horrifying discussion of a possible atomic explosion.
Usage of frightful in inglés
1
There is some error, one frightful error, in the thinking of men.
2
No musical form, however frightful, seems immune from reinvention, reconstitution or revivification.
3
It is more terrible in sound than frightful in reality, my child.
4
That was the most frightful thing about it; it had no mouth.
5
To be caught in the mysterious toils of the law is frightful.
6
Under such protracted suffering, the animal outgrows the spiritual in frightful disproportion.
7
The turmoil and confusion in front of them was frightful and indescribable.
8
It would be a frightful defiance cast in the face of society.
9
When that frightful crisis was at an end, the dancer was re-engaged.
10
To him the more frightful the image, the more noble the character.
11
The journey was made in midwinter and was full of frightful hardships.
12
The whole place was in a frightful state of ruin and confusion.
13
Crimes of the most frightful kind had been discovered; others were suspected.
14
You need the most frightful weapons created by a civilization of criminals!
15
Even now I cannot believe in such shamelessness, in such frightful treachery.
16
People forgot the frightful condition of alarm in which they had been.
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Frightful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare