Definition of hair-raising
:causing terror, excitement, or astonishment
- hair-raising stories
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First Known Use of hair-raising
1900
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alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifyingAntonyms
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daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving; bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird; appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarishNear Antonyms
calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing); nonintimidating, nonthreateningHAIR-RAISING Defined for English Language Learners
HAIR-RAISING Defined for Kids
hair-raising
adjective
hair-rais·ing
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Definition of hair-raising for Students
:causing terror, excitement, or great surprise
- He told a hair-raising ghost story.
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