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terrifyingadjective causing fearheard a terrifying noise coming from the next room alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening terrifyingverbpresent participle of terrifyto strike with fearthe prospect of speaking in front of a huge crowd of people absolutely terrifies me affrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, frighting, horrifying, panicking, scarifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrorizing appalling, bowling over, dismaying, flooring, jolting, shaking, shaking upamazing, astounding, awingchilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringingdiscomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying giving one the creeps, making one's flesh creep(or making one's flesh crawl) reassuring assuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiring, steeling ca. 1586 |