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frightful/frightening
adjective as in scary, shocking
Weak matches
- 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
 
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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