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frightful

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Main Entry: frightful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: offensive

Synonyms:

annoying, awful, bad, calamitous, disagreeable, dreadful, extreme, ghastly, great, hideous, horrible, insufferable, lewd, shocking, terrible, terrific, unpleasant, vile, wicked, wrong

Antonyms:

delightful, gentle, inoffensive, nice
Main Entry: frightful/frightening
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scary, shocking

Synonyms:

alarming, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, chilling, daunting, dire, direful, dismaying, disquieting, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, ghastly, grabber, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hairy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconceivable, intimidating, lurid, macabre, menacing, morbid, ominous, petrifying, portentous, repellent, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving, unspeakable

Antonyms:

calming, comforting, pleasing
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: 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: 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
Main Entry: disgusting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sickening; repulsive

Synonyms:

abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrid, horrific, icky, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nerdy, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, satiating, scandalous, scuzzy, shameless, shocking, sleazeball, sleazy*, stinking, surfeiting, vile, vulgar, yecchy, yucky

Antonyms:

attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing
Main Entry: dread
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, terrifying

Synonyms:

alarming, awe-inspiring, awful, creepy*, dire, frightening, frightful, shuddersome, terrible

Antonyms:

pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful
Main Entry: dreadful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, frightening

Synonyms:

abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, creepy*, dire, distressing, fearful, formidable, frightful, frozen, ghastly, godawful, grievous, grim, grody, gross*, hideous, horrendous, horrific, icky, lousy, mean, monstrous, rotten, shameful, shocking, shuddersome, spooky, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, wicked

Antonyms:

pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful
Main Entry: fearful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying

Synonyms:

appalling, astounding, atrocious, awful, baleful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, distressing, dreadful, eerie, formidable, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, overwhelming, redoubtable, shocking, shuddersome, sinister, strange, sublime, terrible, tremendous, unearthly, unspeakable
Notes: someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome

Antonyms:

good, nice, pleasant
Main Entry: ferocious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: violent, barbaric

Synonyms:

barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish

Antonyms:

gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender
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