Dictionary Entry
frightful
frightful is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
- 2adjective
Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
- 3adjective
provoking horror- Winston Churchill
"an atrocious automobile accident"
"a frightful crime of decapitation"
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- 4adjective
extremely distressing
"fearful slum conditions"
"a frightful mistake"
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- 5adjective
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
"in a frightful hurry"
"spent a frightful amount of money"
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