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FRIGHTFULNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

frightful (provoking horror)

frightful (extremely distressing)

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