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terrifying
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terrifying
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening |
| Synonyms: | alarming, awful, ghastly, grim, hideous, horrible, horrid, scary |
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astounding, awful, bad, daunting, dire, disheartening, dismaying, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, intimidating, mean, petrifying, scaring, shocking, terrible, terrifying, the end, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | comforting, encouraging, reassuring, satisfying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
| Synonyms: | awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, shuddersome, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| 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: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ghoulish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hideous, scary |
| Synonyms: | cruel, demonic, devilish, diabolical, eerie, fiendish, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, horrible, macabre, monstrous, morbid, revolting, spine-chilling, spooky, terrifying |
| Main Entry: | grisly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, awful, blood-stained, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky |
| Notes: | grisly (from Germanic gri- 'fear, terror') is 'gruesome' while grizzly means 'streaked with gray' |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasing, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gruesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, awful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, daunting, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grody, gross*, hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying, loathsome, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, shocking, sick*, spine-tingling, terrible, terrifying, ugly, weird* |
| Notes: | grueling means characterized by physical effort to the point of exhaustion; gruesome means shockingly repellent, inspiring horror |
| Antonyms: | beautiful, pleasant, pretty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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