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most frightening

ADJECTIVE

scary, shocking

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

calming comforting pleasing

ADJECTIVE

fearsome

Synonyms

STRONGEST

daunting disheartening

WEAK

formidable rebarbative redoubtable

Antonyms

WEAK

comforting

Example Sentences

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In horror films, the most frightening threats are often the ones you cannot see.

From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025

Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme, he said he's heard from victims that "this is the most frightening thing you can experience, it's like drowning".

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

Then she told me about her illegal abortion, which was the most frightening and humiliating experience of her life.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024

The most frightening prospect, she says — one that she can hardly stand to contemplate — is that the Russians might have taken the body with them when they pulled back from the area.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

In some ways, these convicts were the most frightening to contemplate, for they demonstrated that badness could take hold of anyone.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann