| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
Synonyms: |
abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, beyond words, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, horrid, incommunicable, inconceivable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, unutterable |
Antonyms: |
good, nice |
| 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: | 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: | heinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, monstrous |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, godawful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, horrendous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking, unspeakable, vicious, villainous |
Antonyms: |
glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | indescribable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond words |
Synonyms: |
impossible, incommunicable, indefinable, ineffable, inexpressible, nondescript, sublime, subtle, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
Antonyms: |
definable, describable, explainable |
| Main Entry: | ineffable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | too great for words |
Synonyms: |
beyond words, celestial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, holy, ideal, impossible, incommunicable, incredible, indefinable, indescribable, inexpressible, nameless, sacred, spiritual, too sacred for words, transcendent, transcendental, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
Antonyms: |
definable, describable, utterable |
| Main Entry: | insufferable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, intolerable |
Synonyms: |
detestable, distressing, dreadful, impossible, insupportable, outrageous, painful, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unspeakable |
Antonyms: |
delightful, endurable, happy, pleasant, sufferable, tolerable |
| Main Entry: | outrageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
Synonyms: |
abominable, atrocious, barbaric, beastly, brazen, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, criminal, debasing, debauching, degenerate, depraving, disgraceful, disgracing, egregious, flagitious, flagrant, gross, heinous, horrendous, horrible, ignoble, infamous, inhuman, iniquitous, malevolent, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, opprobrious, scandalous, scurrilous, shameless, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbearable, ungodly, unspeakable, villainous, violent, wanton, wicked |
Antonyms: |
delightful, good, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | shocking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; very surprising |
Synonyms: |
abominable, appalling, atrocious, awful, burning, crying, desperate, detestable, direful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, glaring, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shameful, sickening, stupefying, terrible, ugly, unspeakable |
Antonyms: |
calming, comforting, soothing |
| Main Entry: | untold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very many; enormous |
Synonyms: |
beyond measure, countless, gigantic, hidden, huge, immense, incalculable, indescribable, inexpressible, innumerable, innumerous, mammoth, manifold, many, measureless, mighty, monstrous, multiple, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, private, prodigious, staggering, suppressed, titanic, uncountable, uncounted, undreamed of, unexpressed, unimaginable, unknown, unnumberable, unnumbered, unspeakable, unthinkable, vast |
Antonyms: |
few, little, small, tiny |