Synonyms for FRIGHTENING
fright·en·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. terrorization, terrorisation, frighteningadjective

   the act of inspiring with fear

   Synonyms:
   terrorization, frightening, terrorisation

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "frightening":

   terrifying, scary, appalling, alarming, horrifying, creepy, chilling, terrible, fearsome, dreadful, horrific, daunting, frightful, spooky, shocking, horrendous, horrible, fearful, worrying

How to pronounce FRIGHTENING?

How to say FRIGHTENING in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use FRIGHTENING in a sentence?

1. Hansa Bhargava:

   A sleep terror is not a monster under the bed, although it's so scary for parents that it can seem like that at the time, what happens is that the child wakes up screaming, crying, terrified and may not even recognize you or remember what happened. It's a frightening experience, both for the child and the parent.

2. Michael Kugelman:

   It is really very important to remember we are very fortunate to be here in the U.S., where these attacks happen relatively infrequently compared to other areas of the world, as frightening as they are, when you consider places like Iraq, Syria, Pakistan — we are so much safer than these regions. We have a much greater chance of being hit by a car than we do of being the victim of a terror attack.

3. May Sarton:

   We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

4. Jane Lazarre:

   I understood, certainly not for the first time, that my son — and my sons both — were viewed as being dangerous, being potentially frightening to people who were white.

5. Susan Loconsole:

   I don't think that there's suddenly any more fraud or anything different going on, it's just one person saying there was and having so many people that believe everything he says, that they now have taken that as their message. There in itself is the most frightening thing in this country.