Synonyms for frightening
fright·en·ing

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1. terrorization, terrorisation, frighteningadjective

   the act of inspiring with fear

   Synonyms:
   terrorization, terrorisation

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

2. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

   causing fear or dread or terror

   "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. List of paraphrases for "frightening":

   terrifying, scary, appalling, alarming, horrifying, creepy, chilling, terrible, fearsome, dreadful, horrific, daunting, frightful, spooky, shocking, horrendous, horrible, fearful, worrying

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1. Selahattin Demirtas:

   In order to keep the HDP under the threshold, the Palace decided on a war campaign that put attacks against our party in the center, the AK Party and the Palace saw it was possible to increase their support by frightening people. They are going to use it more often now, as they saw that it actually worked.

2. Bachar Ghattas:

   You can see injured people all over the streets in Beirut, glass all over the place, cars are damaged, it is like an apocalypse, it is very, very frightening what is happening right now, and people are freaking out. The emergency services are overwhelmed.

3. Marcus Aurelius:

   Death and pain are not frightening, it’s the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, ‘Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.’

4. Laurens Van der Post:

   Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

5. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron:

   In retrospect, I didnt have enough empathy to really, truly understand what he must have felt like to step into Mel Gibsons shoes. That is frightening, and I think because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, This is scary for you, and its scary for me, too. Lets be nice to each other.