Antonyms for frighteningfright·en·ing

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1. terrorization, terrorisation, frighteningadjective

   the act of inspiring with fear

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

   Synonyms:
   terrorization, terrorisation

2. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

   causing fear or dread or terror

   "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

How to use frightening in a sentence?

1. Mauricio Macri:

   The official party is showing a dark strategy of trying to sow angst and fear with the sole goal of frightening people over the possibility of change, but it's not going to work.

2. Michael Lundy:

   It's frightening, i don't want to be nowhere else but home.

3. Mary Caroline Richards:

   Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

4. Jacob Lassin:

   The idea that the main symbol that stood in your city for 1,000 years could be at risk or could be destroyed is very frightening.

5. Mark Linden:

   For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents.

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