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- a truly frightening movie
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of frightening (Entry 2 of 2)
- around the campfire the campers tried to frighten one another with ghostly legends and grisly tales
Synonyms for frightening
- affrighting,
- alarming
- (also alaruming),
- frighting,
- horrifying,
- panicking,
- scarifying,
- scaring,
- shocking,
- spooking,
- startling,
- terrifying,
- terrorizing
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“Frightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frightening. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of frightening was in 1652
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