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The Golden State got slammed by record-low rainfall in 2013 and remains frighteningly dry despite a few recent storms.

Published in 1886, this remains a frighteningly accurate portrait of the alcoholic personality.

A woman in a cupcake of a wedding dress, with her wedding party behind her, stands against a frighteningly bruise-hued sky.

Presumed to be infected with tuberculosis—potentially fatal and frighteningly infectious—she and Kowerski were released.

Tough, frighteningly ambitious, politically savvy, and willing to take outsize risks.

And instantly he remembered that Jill was very near the place where frighteningly impossible things were happening.

A slanting, stony mountainside which stretched up frighteningly to the very sky.

A slanting rocky mountainside, which stretched up frighteningly to the very sky.

And yet she was frighteningly self-willed, and full of life, and determined to enjoy it.

Once among them, the darkness closed frighteningly about her.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frighteningly, such as: angrily, boldly, brutally, ferociously, forcefully, and frantically.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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