| Main Entry: | appall/appal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | horrify |
Synonyms: |
alarm, amaze, astound, awe, consternate, daunt, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, faze, frighten, get to, gross out, insult, intimidate, outrage, petrify, scare, shake, shock, terrify, throw, unnerve |
Antonyms: |
comfort, encourage, reassure, satisfy |
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
Synonyms: |
alarming, astounding, awful, bad, daunting, dire, disheartening, dismaying, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, intimidating, mean, petrifying, scaring, shocking, terrible, terrifying, the end, unnerving |
Antonyms: |
comforting, encouraging, reassuring, satisfying |
| Main Entry: | appall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | horrify |
Synonyms: |
alarm, amaze, appal, astound, awe, consternate, daunt, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, faze, frighten, get to, gross out, insult, intimidate, outrage, petrify, scare, shake, shock, terrify, throw, unnerve |
Antonyms: |
comfort, embolden, encourage, reasurre |
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
Synonyms: |
appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, godawful, grody, gross*, horrible, horrid, horrifying, icky, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible |
Antonyms: |
inoffensive |
| Main Entry: | awe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amaze |
Synonyms: |
alarm, appall, astonish, blow away, cow*, daunt, dazzle, flabbergast, frighten, grandstand, horrify, hotdog, impress, intimidate, knock socks off, overawe, scare, showboat, startle, strike, stun, stupefy, terrify |
Antonyms: |
expect |
| Main Entry: | awful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; terrible |
Synonyms: |
abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, grungy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly |
Antonyms: |
beautiful, good, ok, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | cow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | browbeat, intimidate |
Synonyms: |
abash, appall, awe, bludgeon, bluster, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, daunt, discomfit, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, dragoon, embarrass, enforce, faze, frighten, hector, lean on, overawe, push around, rattle, scare, showboat, strong-arm, subdue, terrorize, turn on the heat, unnerve, walk heavy |
Antonyms: |
encourage, hearten, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | daunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frighten, alarm |
Synonyms: |
appall, baffle, browbeat, bully, consternate, cow, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, foil, horrify, intimidate, overawe, put off*, scare, shake, subdue, terrify, thwart |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, embolden, encourage, hearten, help, incite, inspirit, stimulate, undaunt, urge |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
Synonyms: |
appalling, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
Antonyms: |
animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, ominous |
Synonyms: |
afflictive, alarming, appalling, awful, black, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, dismal, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fierce, frightful, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, horrible, horrid, lamentable, oppressing, portentous, redoubtable, regrettable, ruinous, scowling, shocking, terrific, ugly, unfortunate, woeful |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, good, lucky, nice |