Nearby Words
| Main Entry: |
frightening
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearsome |
| Synonyms: | daunting, disheartening, formidable, rebarbative, redoubtable |
| Antonyms: | comforting |
| Main Entry: | fearsome |
| 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: | heightened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, complex, complicated, concentrated, confused, fierce, formidable, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, intense, intensive, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, onerous, oppressive, profound, recondite, rough, serious, solemn, stormy, strenuous, te |
| Main Entry: | jeopardous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parlous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, hazardous, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, venturesome, venturous, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | Mean. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral; mediocre, middle-class; commonplace (unimportant).
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