frightening

English

Etymology

frighten +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/, /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Hyphenation: fright‧en‧ing

Adjective

frightening (comparative more frightening, superlative most frightening)

Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
(figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

Synonyms

Thesaurus:frightening

Derived terms

frighteningly

Translations

scary

Arabic: مُجَفِّل (mujaffil), مُخِيف (muḵīf), مُرْعِب (murʕib)
Gulf Arabic: يخوف impf (yḵwwif) (verb)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 得人驚／得人惊 (dak¹ jan⁴ geng¹)

Mandarin: 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù), 可怕 (zh) (kěpà)
Dutch: ontstellend (nl), beangstigend (nl), angstaanjagend (nl)
Finnish: pelottava (fi), karmiva, kauhea (fi)
French: effrayant (fr)
Galician: aterrecedor (gl)
Georgian: შემაშინებელი (šemašinebeli), ამაღელვებელი (amaɣelvebeli), დამზაფრავი (damzapravi)
German: fürchterlich (de), schreckerregend
Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (agisleiks)
Greek: τρομακτικός (el) m (tromaktikós), φοβιστικός m (fovistikós)
Ancient: φοβερός (phoberós), δεινός (deinós)
Hindi: भुतहा (bhuthā)
Hungarian: félelmetes (hu)
Irish: scanrúil, scéiniúil
Italian: spaventoso (it)
Japanese: 恐い (ja) (こわい, kowai), 怖い (ja) (こわい, kowai)
Korean: 무섭다 (ko) (museopda), 두렵다 (ko) (duryeopda)
Latin: terribilis, metūculōsus
Middle Korean: 므ᅀᅴ〮엽다〮 (mùzúyyèptá), 저프다〮 (cèphùtá), 두립〮다〮 (twùlíptá)
Plautdietsch: schrakjlich
Polish: przerażający (pl) m
Portuguese: assustador (pt)
Romanian: înfricoșător (ro), înspăimântător (ro)
Russian: пуга́ющий (ru) (pugájuščij)
Sanskrit: भीम (sa) (bhīma), भीषण (sa) (bhīṣaṇa), घोर (sa) (ghora)
Scottish Gaelic: eagalach
Serbo-Croatian: strahovit (sh)
Spanish: alarmante (es), aterrador (es)
Swedish: skrämmande (sv)
Tibetan: ཞེད་སྣང་ཚ་པོ (zhed snang tsha po)
Turkish: korkutucu (tr)
Ukrainian: жа́хливий (žáxlyvyj)

awful

Dutch: afschuwelijk (nl)
Finnish: kauhea (fi)
Galician: noxento
Greek: τρομακτικός (el) m (tromaktikós)
Polish: okropny (pl), straszny (pl) m
Russian: стра́шный (ru) (strášnyj), ужа́сный (ru) (užásnyj)
Spanish: terrible (es)

Verb

frightening

present participle and gerund of frighten
The scientist was frightening the timid children.

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