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Bogle :: Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

Dread :: Dread (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

Poker :: Poker (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear..

Grim :: Grim (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Awful :: Awful (a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster..

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

Goblin :: Goblin (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

Frightfully :: Frightfully (adv.) In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

Ogre :: Ogre (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster..

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..

Horrendous :: Horrendous (a.) Fearful; frightful.

Fearsome :: Fearsome (a.) Frightful; causing fear.

Effrayable :: Effrayable (a.) Frightful.

Hobgoblin :: Hobgoblin (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow..

Grisly :: Grisly (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter..

Horrific :: Horrific (a.) Causing horror; frightful.

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..

Affrightful :: Affrightful (a.) Terrifying; frightful.

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..

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..

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