Definitions for frightening
Overview of noun frightening
The noun frightening has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. terrorization, terrorisation, frightening
(the act of inspiring with fear)
Overview of verb frighten
The verb frighten has 2 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (10) frighten, fright, scare, affright
(cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her")
2. (1) frighten
(drive out by frightening)
Overview of adj frightening
The adj frightening has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (6) 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")
