What does frightening mean?

Definitions for frightening
fright·en·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. terrorization, terrorisation, frighteningadjective

    the act of inspiring with fear

  2. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. frighteningadjective

    causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary

    The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.

  2. frighteningadjective

    awful

  3. Etymology: frighten + -ing

Webster Dictionary

  1. Frightening

    of Frighten

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of frightening in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of frightening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of frightening in a Sentence

  1. Getty Images:

    People are enjoying it. And that’s been very gratifying, because obviously it was very frightening before the book came out — because you hope that people won't reject your life.

  2. Yet Boykin:

    What’s really troublesome and almost frightening to know is that we have a commander in chief who does not see the imperative of bringing the Americans home, that’s a longstanding ethos, not just of the military, but of America.

  3. Jeremy Farrar:

    This epidemic is in a truly frightening phase and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon, there are now more deaths than any other Ebola outbreak in history, bar the West Africa Epidemic of 2013-16, and there can be no doubt that the situation could escalate towards those terrible levels.

  4. Yvonne Maldonado:

    At times, it was really frightening to see how angry and hostile people were to this idea.

  5. Brian Burston:

    The weapon of choice now is a truck. What next? It's just frightening.

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