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frightful   (TTS Sound)

The adj frightful has 3 senses

• atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly -- (provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound")


• frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous -- (extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money")


• fearful, frightful -- (extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake")