Audio English.net » Dictionary » F » Friendship Plant ... Fritillaria Micrantha

FRIGHTFULNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does frightfulness mean?

• FRIGHTFULNESS (noun)
The noun FRIGHTFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being frightful

Familiarity information: FRIGHTFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FRIGHTFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

frightfulness ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The quality of being frightful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("frightfulness" is a kind of...):

awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frightfulness"):

ghastliness; grimness; gruesomeness; luridness (the quality of being ghastly)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Everyone wants to go to heaven but no-one wants to die." (English proverb)

"Cherish youth, but trust old age." (Native American proverb, Pueblo)

"He beat me and cried, and went before me to complain." (Arabic proverb)

"He who digs a pit for another falls into it himself." (Czech proverb)

FRIGHTFULNESS: related words searches

» Definition of luridness
» What does dreadfulness mean?
» What does gruesomeness mean?
» What does ghastliness mean?
» Meaning of terribleness

Page delivered in 0.0361 seconds