- Types Of Speech
- You can use frightening as a noun or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Frightening
- A 3 syllables noun and 11 letters with the letters e, f, g, h, i, n, r, and t, 8 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter t. Frightening starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters f, fr, fri, frig, frigh, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ning, ening, ..
- Definition
- To inspire with fear
- Pig Latin
- Frightening in Pig Latin is said as "ighteningfray or ighteningfrway".
- Unigram
- f | r | i | g | h | t | e | n | i | n | g
- Bigram
- fr | ri | ig | gh | ht | te | en | ni | in | ng
- Trigram
- fri | rig | igh | ght | hte | ten | eni | nin | ing
- Quadrigram
- frig | righ | ight | ghte | hten | teni | enin | ning
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- to inspire with fear
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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";
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Synonym | Definition |
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Agonising | extremely painful |
Agonizing | extremely painful |
Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
Amazing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Appalling | an experience that appalls "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?" |
Atrocious | provoking horror "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
Awe Inspiring | |
Awesome | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Awful | 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" " |
Awing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
View all cognitive synonyms for Frightening
Anagram | Definition |
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Frightening | to inspire with fear |
View English words with the unique letters used in frightening. Words With The Letters Efghinrt
Word | Definition |
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Affright | cause fear in "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" |
Fright | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
Frighten | cause fear in "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" |
Scare | a sudden attack of fear |
Terrify | fill with terror frighten greatly |
Terrorise | fill with terror frighten greatly |
Terrorize | fill with terror frighten greatly |
Word | Definition |
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Bullying | the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something |
Intimidation | the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something |
Title | Type | Description |
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To Keep Readers Attention Fear Mongering | Use frightening | Fear is a powerful emotion for grabbing and keeping an audience’s attention. What fear mongering words do the news net... read more |
Frightening Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With F
- Ends With G