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Synonyms for TERRIFYING
ter·ri·fy·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
terrific, terrifyingadjective
causing extreme terror
"a terrifying wail"
Synonyms:
wondrous, tremendous, terrific, terrifying, howling(a), wonderful, marvellous, fantastic, marvelous, rattling(a), grandAntonyms:
unalarming
Editors Contribution
super scaryadjective
it was terrifying to see him like that
Submitted by cadenshouey on March 25, 2023
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "terrifying":
frightening, appalling, scary, terrible, horrifying, horrific, fearsome, dreadful, horrendous, chilling, horrible, creepy, shocking, daunting, awful
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1450 | grand | |
#2767 | wonderful | |
#4089 | fantastic | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#8709 | horrible | |
#8774 | tremendous | |
#9392 | scary | |
#9775 | awful | |
#12244 | terrific | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#19151 | marvelous | |
#19357 | creepy | |
#20756 | frightening | |
#21332 | chilling | |
#22594 | daunting | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#25388 | terrifying | |
#26052 | horrific | |
#29587 | marvellous | |
#29891 | appalling | |
#31123 | wondrous | |
#38864 | horrendous | |
#39885 | horrifying | |
#51495 | fearsome |
How to use TERRIFYING in a sentence?
We were sleeping and it woke us up abruptly, it was so terrifying because this is my first earthquake. I thought it was a nightmare because I was so confused.
We don't dare come out of our houses, there is death everywhere, the stench of death, of destruction. It's terrifying.
The neurologist told me he’d never seen this before, it was terrifying to hear that at 14.
I don’t know who this guy was, but it’s not Austin Butler. It’s not Elvis, his voice is different, his look is different. Everything about his demeanor is terrifying.
It sounds like I went on a TV show to be like, Guys, I have some big news ! And the fact that I would go on and sort of declare Mark Ronson like as a heterosexual white male part of any marginalized community was terrifying to me, or just embarrassing.
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