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Horrendous :: Horrendous (a.) Fearful; frightful.

Ogre :: Ogre (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster..

Frightful :: Frightful (a.) Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance..

Dread :: Dread (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.

Gruesome :: Gruesome (a.) Ugly; frightful.

Horrific :: Horrific (a.) Causing horror; frightful.

Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..

Frightfulness :: Frightfulness (n.) The quality of being frightful.

Fearful :: Fearful (a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.

Goblin :: Goblin (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

Bugbear :: Bugbear (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc..

Poker :: Poker (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear..

Grisly :: Grisly (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter..

Horror :: Horror (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking..

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..

Effrayable :: Effrayable (a.) Frightful.

Fearsome :: Fearsome (a.) Frightful; causing fear.

Bogle :: Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

Hideous :: Hideous (a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks..

Frightfully :: Frightfully (adv.) In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

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