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# frightful

adjective

«frightful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Very bad, terrible or causing great fear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#m1)
2. (informal) Very bad or unpleasant, as in «a frightful mess». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#m2)

### In the lessons

describes a dreadful place, a sound or a sight that makes you afraid

### Examples

- The place had a frightful look. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x1)
- He gave a frightful yell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x2)
- The storm was frightful, and the trees bent low. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «frightful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frightful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frightful.html) on Mova free.