Synonyms for frightening
fright·en·ing

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1. terrorization, terrorisation, frighteningadjective

   the act of inspiring with fear

   Synonyms:
   terrorization, 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

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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

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1. Robert White:

   This has everything to do with Robert White religious beliefs. it’s a frightening day in United States when a person can not express their faith without fears of persecution following.

2. Jerrold Mundis:

   I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

3. Bo Laurent:

   They performed a clitorectomy and they told my parents to move to another town and not tell anyone where they went and never tell me what happened, all those things were so traumatizing, frightening and pain-producing for my parents that it made it hard for them to relate normally to me.

4. Photographer Helge Skodvin:

   With these animals in real life, (they are) really frightening and dangerous, sometimes when the taxidermists make their piece, they make the lion into a frightening pose. ... They still want to make the leopard or the jaguar look really dangerous.

5. Laurens Van der Post:

   Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.