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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Grim :: Grim (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Frightful :: Frightful (a.) Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.

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

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

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

Effrayable :: Effrayable (a.) Frightful.

Hobgoblin :: Hobgoblin (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow..

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

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..

Gashful :: Gashful (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.

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

Awful :: Awful (a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster..

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

Affrightful :: Affrightful (a.) Terrifying; frightful.

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