Thesaurus:frightening
English
Adjective
Sense: causing fear
Synonyms
- affreux
- alarming [⇒ thesaurus]
- appalling
- awful
- buggish (obsolete)
- butt-clenching (North America, informal)
- buttock-clenching (informal)
- dismayful (obsolete)
- dreadful
- fearful
- flaysome (British dialect)
- flesh-crawling
- formidable
- freaky (slang)
- frightening
- frightensome
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghostly [⇒ thesaurus]
- grisly
- hair-curling
- hair-raising
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- horrifying
- horripilating
- pulse-pounding
- scaring
- scary
- shocking
- skin-crawling
- terrible
- terrifying
- terrorsome
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- creeptacular (slang)
- spooktacular (slang)
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “860. fear” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “frightening” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.