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frightening   (Sound)

KK Pronunciation

〔 `fraItәnIŋ 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˋfraitniŋ 〕


Overview of noun frightening

The noun frightening has 1 sense



Overview of verb frighten

The verb frighten has 2 senses


  • frighten, fright, scare, affright -- (cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her")

  • frighten -- (drive out by frightening)


Overview of adj frightening

The adj frightening has 1 sense


  • awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible -- (causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse")