单词 | frightful |
释义 | frightfulWord family (noun) fright frighteners (adjective) frightened frightening frightful (verb) frighten (adverb) frighteningly frightfully From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfrightfulfright‧ful /ˈfraɪtfəl/ adjective old-fashioned especially British English1 BADunpleasant or bad SYN awful, terrible There’s been a frightful accident.2 VERYused to emphasize how bad something is SYN awful, terrible Her hair was a frightful mess.Examples from the Corpusfrightful• Oh, Little Kai, it was frightful, and horrid.• Blanche thought she was frightful but listened to her breathless monologues with stoic patience.• This is a frightful cautionary tale, well told.• They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee.• Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door, begging for shelter.• Everyone was terrified of him on account of his frightful temper.• It was so frightful that my daughter Lilya and I stopped travelling by car together. |
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