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grabber
adjective as in frightful/frightening
Weak matches
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- dismaying
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- ghastly
- 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
noun as in apparatus
Strong matches
noun as in enigma
Strong matches
noun as in evidence
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in fascination
noun as in mania
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in mystery
Strong matches
noun as in perplexity
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in problem
noun as in proof
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in provocation
noun as in puzzler
Strong matches
noun as in suspense
Example Sentences
Abe, that’s meant to be a grabber.
Why has a small party become the headline grabber?
Crews are using the largest hydraulic grabber in the country to help in that effort, he said.
While some praised the Super Bowl spot as a retro attention grabber, Kennedy family members slammed it.
That’s certainly a grabber, but so too is a communal bathing scene in which Cecilia and some of the other younger women pose prettily in a vaulted room, lounging and grooming in semitransparent bathing gowns that reveal just how fit they are.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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