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English
Etymology
From frighten + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/, /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
- Hyphenation: fright‧en‧ing
Adjective
frightening (comparative more frightening, superlative most frightening)
- Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
- (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
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Translations
scary
- Arabic: مُجَفِّل (mujaffil), مُخِيف (muḵīf), مُرْعِب (murʕib)
- Gulf Arabic: يخوف impf (yḵwwif) (verb)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 得人驚／得人惊 (dak1 jan4 geng1)
- Mandarin: 恐怖 (zh) (kǒngbù), 可怕 (zh) (kěpà)
- Dutch: ontstellend (nl), beangstigend (nl), angstaanjagend (nl)
- Finnish: hirvittävä (fi), pelottava (fi), karmiva (fi), kauhea (fi)
- French: effrayant (fr)
- Galician: aterrecedor (gl)
- Georgian: შემაშინებელი (šemašinebeli), ამაღელვებელი (amaɣelvebeli), დამზაფრავი (damzapravi)
- German: fürchterlich (de), schreckerregend
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (agisleiks)
- Greek: τρομακτικός (el) m (tromaktikós), φοβιστικός m (fovistikós)
- Ancient: φοβερός (phoberós), δεινός (deinós)
- Hindi: भुतहा (bhuthā)
- Hungarian: félelmetes (hu)
- Irish: scanrúil, scéiniúil
- Italian: spaventoso (it)
- Japanese: 恐い (ja) (こわい, kowai), 怖い (ja) (こわい, kowai)
- Korean: 무섭다 (ko) (museopda), 두렵다 (ko) (duryeopda)
- Latin: terribilis, metūculōsus
- Middle Korean: 므ᅀᅴ〮엽다〮 (mùzúyyèptá), 저프다〮 (cèphùtá), 두립〮다〮 (twùlíptá)
- Persian: سهمناک (fa) (sahmnâk)
- Plautdietsch: schrakjlich
- Polish: przerażający (pl) m
- Portuguese: assustador (pt)
- Romanian: înfricoșător (ro), înspăimântător (ro)
- Russian: пуга́ющий (ru) (pugájuščij)
- Sanskrit: भीम (sa) (bhīma), भीषण (sa) (bhīṣaṇa), घोर (sa) (ghora)
- Scottish Gaelic: eagalach
- Serbo-Croatian: strahovit (sh)
- Spanish: alarmante (es), aterrador (es)
- Swedish: skrämmande (sv)
- Tibetan: ཞེད་སྣང་ཚ་པོ (zhed snang tsha po)
- Turkish: korkutucu (tr)
- Ukrainian: жа́хливий (žáxlyvyj)
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Verb
frightening
- present participle and gerund of frighten
- The scientist was frightening the timid children.