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Synonyms of frightening in English:

frightening


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adjective

1‘she had many vivid and frightening dreams’

SYNONYMS
terrifying, horrifying, alarming, startling, shocking, chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, appalling, disturbing, disconcerting, unnerving, intimidating, daunting, dismaying, upsetting, harrowing, traumatic
eerie, sinister, fearsome, dreadful, horrible, awful, nightmarish, monstrous, grim, gruesome, macabre, menacing
Scottish eldritch
informal scary, spooky, creepy, hairy
ANTONYMS

comforting