Definition of frightful

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Frightful (a.) Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.

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Bugbear :: Bugbear (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc..
Horror :: Horror (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking..
Bogle :: Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Awful :: Awful (a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster..
Goblin :: Goblin (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
Gashful :: Gashful (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Frightfulness :: Frightfulness (n.) The quality of being frightful.
Gruesome :: Gruesome (a.) Ugly; frightful.
Fearsome :: Fearsome (a.) Frightful; causing fear.
Affrightful :: Affrightful (a.) Terrifying; frightful.
Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..
Poker :: Poker (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear..
Ogre :: Ogre (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster..
Fearful :: Fearful (a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
Effrayable :: Effrayable (a.) Frightful.
Frightfully :: Frightfully (adv.) In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
Horrific :: Horrific (a.) Causing horror; frightful.
Frightful :: Frightful (a.) Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
Frightful :: Frightful (a.) Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance..
Horrendous :: Horrendous (a.) Fearful; frightful.
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