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单词 frightful
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frightful

Word 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 English  1 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 CorpusfrightfulOh, 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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