frightening
How many syllables in frightening?
There are 3 syllables in the word frightening.How to pronounce frightening:
Synonyms for frightening:
alarming
appalling
awful
baleful
bloodcurdling
creepy
daunting
dire
direful
dismaying
disturbing
dread
dreaded
dreadful
eerie
fearful
fearsome
forbidding
formidable
frightful
ghastly
gruesome
hair-raising
horrendous
horrible
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Antonyms for frightening:
acceptable
agreeable
assuaging
assuasive
ataractic
auspicious
calmative
calming
caring
comfortable
comforting
commiserative
common
compassionate
consolatory
consoling
delightful
earthly
easing
easy
encouraging
familiar
funny
gentle
gladdening
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- anywhere
- barricade
- velvetlike
- remorseful
- regular
- paranoid
- genuflect
- optimal
- foeticide
- bamboozle
- tsunami
- montana's
- impression
- diary
- coconut
- arrangement
- adeptly
- studio
- rodeo
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- Alexis
- wagon train
- accrual
- undemised
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- mistempered
- dramatic
- dolorous
- coversed sine
- Pericles
- lumbago
- constructive
- Abhishek
- troglodyte
- terrible
- distantly
- diarrhea
- buttercup
- pestify
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Syllable Fun Fact
The Guinness World Record for the longest word by syllables is the chemical name for the protein nicknamed 'titin', with 189,819 letters and thousands of syllables.
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