All terrifying synonyms
ter·ri·fy
T t adjective terrifying
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- exhilarating — Making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling.
- chilling — If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening.
- fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- dread — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
adj terrifying
- ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- intimidating — to make timid; fill with fear.
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lowdown — the real and unadorned facts; the true, secret, or inside information (usually preceded by the): We gave them the lowdown on the new housing project.
- ghoulish — strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous: a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.
- hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- awesome — An awesome person or thing is very impressive and often frightening.
- cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
- grisly — gristly.
- fairier — (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
- grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
- low-down — If someone gives you the low-down on a person or thing, they tell you all the important information about them.
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- in-humane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- appalling — Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- hideous — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- creepy — If you say that something or someone is creepy, you mean they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.