Definition of Frightening

Noun

  • the act of inspiring with fear

Adjective

  • 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"
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Word games points for the Frightening

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Unscramble frightening

302 unscramble word found using the letters frightening.

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