Synonyms for frightful

Grammar : Adj

Spell : frahyt-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfraɪt fəl

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Définition of frightful

Origin : mid-13c., "timid;" c.1600 "alarming;" from fright + -ful. In common with most -ful adjectives, it once had both an active and passive sense. Meaning "dreadful, horrible, shocking" (often hyperbolic) is attested from c.1700; Johnson noted it as "a cant word among women for anything unpleasing." Related: Frightfully.

adj offensive

Example sentences :

All her thought was how to get him away from the frightful place.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

It was rather a frightful place to go into in search of the source of a shriek.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

There was a frightful grin of triumph twisting his mouth in this minute of punishment.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Down almost to our own day the depredations of wolves were frightful.
Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

For about five minutes it was the most frightful scene I have ever witnessed.
Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh

This was a very odd and frightful sort of figure, as you may well believe.
Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And if I obeyed, to what delightful discoveries or frightful dangers might it lead?
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

The girl, too, saw the frightful creatures that surrounded the man upon the deck.
Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He practices a frightful dance, and remarks at intervals, "Jewhillikins."
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 » by Various

It must be the frightful rain which has silenced the boy so!
Extract from : « Moni the Goat-Boy » by Johanna Spyri

Antonyms for frightful

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