frightening

[frightening]

Frightening things are scary or alarming. The sign of a really well made horror film is that it's deeply frightening.

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Noun
to inspire with fear

Adjective S.
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"; "


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Frighten


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Usage Examples

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

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Other Usage Examples

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

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