English
frightening adj
Definition
causing fear or dread or terror.
Synonyms
abysmal, affrighting, alarming, appalling, apprehensible, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awful, baffling, bloodcurdling, chilling, chimerical, cowing, creepy, dangerous, deep, demoniac, demoralizing, depressing, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, dicey, dino-, dire, direful, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dour, dread, dreaded, dreadful, dree, fearful, fearsome, fell, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, frighting, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, hair-raising, harmful, harrowing, hateful, haunting, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, immense, imposing, intimidating, lethal, macabre, malignant, menacing, merciless, monstrous, morbid, nerve-racking, nightmarish, offensive, ominous, opprobrious, overwhelming, palling, perilous, petrifying, pitiless, risky, rugged, scaring, scary, sensational, shocking, sinister, sordid, spiteful, spooky, squalid, staggering, startling, stupendous, terrible, terrific, terrifying, terrorizing, thorny, threatening, tigerish, tragic, traumatic, treacherous, tremendous, truculent, uncanny, unnerving, unsafe, unspeakable, weird, whelming.
Similar Concepts
barbaric, bloody, causing vacillation, dangerous, demoniacal, devilish, ding-dong (battle), ferocious, ghostly, gigantic, grotesque, hair-raising, harsh (in behaviour), hellish, merciless, overbearing (person), pitch-dark, satanic, stormy, thrilling, tyrannical.
Opposite Concepts
domesticated, frightened, humble, nonviolent.
Hindi
भयानक वि
Synonyms
आतंकपूर्ण, उग्र, उत्तर्जन, उत्ताल, उदग्र, उद्दाम, उद्वेगपूर्ण, उद्वेलक, कँपकँपाऊ, कंपायक, कटुक, कराल, कारु, क्रूर, ख़तरनाक, ख़ौफ़नाक, गंभीर, घनघोर, घोर, चिंताजनक, डराऊ, डरावना [डरावनी], त्रासक, त्रासद, त्रासदायक, त्रासन, त्रासी, त्वेष्य, दरद, दहलाऊ, दहशतपूर्ण, दारुण, दिल दहलाऊ, दैत्याकार, पैशाची, प्रचंड, प्रतिभय, प्रमाथी, बीहड़, बेढब, भयंकर, भयकर, भयकारी, भयजनक, भयद, भयदर्शी, भयदायी, भयधन, भयनीय, भयपूर्ण, भयप्रद, भयप्रदायी, भयभीत कर्ता, भयानक, भयावना [भयावनी], भयावह, भयोत्पादक, भीतिकर, भीतिकारी, भीतिकारी [भीतिकारिणी], भीषण, भीषणक, भुतहा [भुतही], भेतव्य, भेरुंड, भैरव, भैरवकारक, मख़दूश, रक्ताक्ष, राक्षसी, रुद्र, रुद्रिय, रुद्रीय, रौद्र, रौरव, वहशतनाक, विकट, विकराल, विडंबनात्मक, वित्रास, विभीषक, विभीषण, विरुद्ध, विशंकट, व्याल, संत्रासक, संत्रासकर, संत्रासकारी, संत्रासद, संत्रासदायक, संत्रासन, सनसनीख़ेज़, सप्रतिभय, सुभीम, सुविभीषक, हिलाऊ, हैबतनाक, हौलनाक.
Similar Concepts
अत्याचारपूर्ण, अनिश्चित (युद्ध), कठोर (व्यवहारी), ख़तरनाक, गहन (अंधकार), तूफ़ानी, दानवीय, दैत्यकाय, नारकीय, निर्दय, भुतहा [भुतही], रोमहर्षक, रोमांचक, वहशियाना, विचलनकारी, विद्रूप, शैतानी, हिंस्र, हेकड़ीबाज़.
Opposite Concepts
अहिंसक, पालतू, भयभीत, विनम्र.
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