Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense |
| Synonyms: | agitating, appalling, awesome, awful, deafening, disquieting, dreadful, enormous, excessive, extreme, fearful, fierce, formidable, frightful, gigantic, great, harsh, horrible, horrific, huge, immense, large, monstrous, severe, shocking, terrible, terrorizing, thunderous, tremendous, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate |
| Main Entry: | tremendous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | huge, overwhelming |
| Synonyms: | amazing, appalling, astounding, awesome, awful, blimp, colossal, cracking, deafening, dreadful, enormous, excellent, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fearful, formidable, frightful, gargantuan, gigantic, great, great big, humongous, immense, incredible, jumbo, large, mammoth, marvelous, massive, mondo, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, stupendous, super, terrible, terrific, titanic, towering, vast, whale, whopper, whopping, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, little, small, tiny, underwhelming, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | uneasy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, uncomfortable |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, alarmed, all nerves, anguished, anxious, apprehensive, bothered, constrained, discomposed, dismayed, disquieted, disturbed, edgy, fearful, fidgety, fretful, harassed, ill at ease, impatient, in turmoil, insecure, irascible, irritable, jittery, jumpy, nervous, on edge, on the qui vive, palpitant, peevish, perplexed, perturbed, precarious, restive, restless, shaken, shaky, strained, suspicious, tense, tormented, troubled, unquiet, unsettled, unstable, upset, vexed, worried, wrung |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, composed, easy-going, laid-back |
| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, beyond words, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, horrid, incommunicable, inconceivable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | redoubtable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dreadful |
| Synonyms: | awesome, brave, courageous, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, illustrious, imminent, terrible, valiant |
| Main Entry: | weird |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | odd, bizarre |
| Synonyms: | awe-inspiring, awful, creepy*, curious, dreadful, eccentric, eerie*, far-out, fearful, flaky*, freaky, funky*, ghastly, ghostly, grotesque, haunting, horrific, inscrutable, kinky*, kooky, magical, mysterious, occult, oddball, ominous, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, queer, secret, singular, spooky*, strange, supernal, supernatural, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wicked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destructive, troublesome |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, awful, barbarous, bothersome, chancy, crashing, dangerous, difficult, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fierce, galling, harmful, hazardous, injurious, intense, mean, mighty, offensive, outrageous, painful, perilous, pesky, risky, severe, terrible, treacherous, troublous, trying, ugly, uncivilized, unconscionable, ungodly, unhealthy, unholy, unpleasant, unsound, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, helpful, useful, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | worried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, troubled |
| Synonyms: | afraid, apprehensive, beside oneself, bothered, clutched, concerned, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fearful, fretful, frightened, hung up, ill at ease, nervous, on edge, on pins and needles, overwrought, perturbed, solicitous, tense, tormented, uneasy, upset, uptight, worried stiff |
| Antonyms: | calm, untroubled, unworried |
| Main Entry: | alarmed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightened |
| Synonyms: | afraid, anxious, aroused, fearful |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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