FRIGHTFUL


Meaning of FRIGHTFUL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

most

Or she could, if she thought of it in time, say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar.

Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Blanche thought she was frightful but listened to her breathless monologues with stoic patience.

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.

Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door, begging for shelter.

Oh, Little Kai, it was frightful , and horrid.

They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee.

This is a frightful cautionary tale, well told.

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