frightful
IPA: frˈaɪtfʌɫ
adjective
- (obsolete) Full of fright, whether
- Afraid, frightened.
- Timid, fearful, easily frightened.
- Full of something causing fright, whether
- Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
- (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, dreadful, awful (also used as an intensifier).
adverb
- (dialect) Frightfully; very.
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Examples of "frightful" in Sentences
- The khanum is a frightful woman.
- At the wedding, he is just frightful.
- The explosion must have been frightful.
- That purple blouse at the wedding is just frightful.
- M. Anciot, and describes as a frightful old hunchback.
- It takes the shape of a frightful face with disembodied hands.
- Van Helsing had not intended to recall her frightful experience.
- No one who recalls the frightful provisions of the penal acts of
- Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British Pharmacopoeia.
- The frightful nature of the violence lies in the facts themselves.
- His eyes were bright and glassy, and their expression frightful to look upon.
- Costumed Tastoanes in frightful masks battle Saint James in a ritual dance each year on July 25th.
- Some are suspended to the vaulted roof by chains, and in frightful-looking positions; others are on the perpendicular walls.
- Do not we who go about our business in the brilliance of the morning sometimes linger to recall the frightful setting of the sun?
- Only too clearly he remembered the first time he and Beatrice had been thrust into this weird community, bound and captive; with only too vivid distinctness he recalled the frightful indignities, perils and hardships inflicted on them.
- We've seen some pretty middling horrible things already, and if these two men of ours call the frightful things we have seen normal, and are planning on deliberately hunting up things that even they will consider monstrous, you and I most certainly shall stay at home! "
- Had a revolutionary change not taken place in our country, our situation now and in the years ahead would have been terrible, and we can understand perfectly that the situation in the years ahead will be terrible in countries which still find themselves in the situation Cuba was in, and even worse: millions of illiterates, a lack of technicians, a shortage of schools, a scarcity of educational and health facilities -- in short, frightful conditions that are well known to Cubans who were familiar with our own past here in all its aspects.