Thesaurus
frightening
Synonyms and Antonyms of frightening
- a truly frightening movie
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, nightmarish
Synonyms and Antonyms of frightening
- around the campfire the campers tried to frighten one another with ghostly legends and grisly tales
affrighting, alarming (also alaruming), frighting, horrifying, panicking, scarifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifying, terrorizing
appalling, bowling over, dismaying, flooring, jolting, shaking, shaking up
chilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringing
discomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
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