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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alarming |
| Synonyms: | awe-inspiring, awesome, distressing, formidable, frightening, frightful, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, massive, powerful, scary, shocking, striking, terrible, terrifying, tremendous |
| Notes: | someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome |
| Main Entry: | awesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, real gone, shocking, something else, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool |
| Antonyms: | unamazing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frightful/frightening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scary, shocking |
| Synonyms: | alarming, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, chilling, daunting, dire, direful, dismaying, disquieting, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, ghastly, grabber, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hairy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconceivable, intimidating, lurid, macabre, menacing, morbid, ominous, petrifying, portentous, repellent, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving, unspeakable |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | nightmarish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening |
| Synonyms: | alarming, awful, chilling, creepy, dire, direful, disquieting, dreadful, eerie, fearful, fearsome, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, hair-raising, hellish, horrible, horrid, horrifying, macabre, morbid, ominous, petrifying, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving |
| Main Entry: | unsafe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, chancy, erratic, explosive, fearsome, hanging by a thread, hazardous, insecure, on a limb, on thin ice, perilous, precarious, risky, shaky, slippery, threatening, ticklish, touch and go, touchy*, treacherous, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsound, unstable, untrustworthy |
| Antonyms: | harmless, protected, safe, secure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | redoubtable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dreadful |
| Synonyms: | awesome, brave, courageous, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, illustrious, imminent, terrible, valiant |
| Main Entry: | ascared |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | afraid |
| Synonyms: | alarmed, apprehensive, fearful, fearsome, frightened, panic-stricken, panicky, petrified, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, spooked, terrified |
| Main Entry: | panicky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | afraid |
| Synonyms: | abashed, aghast, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, aroused, blanched, cowardly, cowed, daunted, discouraged, disheartened, dismayed, distressed, disturbed, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, frightened, frozen, funky*, have cold feet, horrified, in awe, intimidated, nervous, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, petrified, rattled, run scared, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, shocked, spooked, startled, stunned, suspicious, terrified, terror-stricken, timid, timorous, trembling, upset, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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