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shuddersome
adjective as in creepy
adjective as in dread
Strong matches
adjective as in dreadful
adjective as in fearful
Weak matches
- appalling
- astounding
- atrocious
- awful
- baleful
- bloodcurdling
- creepy
- dire
- distressing
- dreadful
- eerie
- formidable
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- lurid
- macabre
- monstrous
- morbid
- overwhelming
- redoubtable
- shocking
- sinister
- strange
- sublime
- terrible
- tremendous
- unearthly
- unspeakable
adjective as in hateful
Example Sentences
They prove as shuddersome as that of Ekong’s father.
In the most shuddersome passage, he is aided in his efforts by Mrs. Jewkes, his housekeeper, who holds down Pamela in bed while the master tries to have his way with the teenager.
Link’s nightmares, his serious little expression in the face of his heavy responsibilities, the shuddersome monsters of the Shadow Temple – all of this was thrillingly eerie to anyone who played Ocarina of Time as a child themselves.
In 2018, a politically shuddersome year, the international art world was both out to lunch and on the alert.
Constant injuries and a shuddersome roster rendered the task nearly impossible.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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