| 单词 | frightful |
| 释义 | Word family noun fright frighteners adjective frightened frightening frightful verb frighten adverb frighteningly frightfully fright·ful /ˈfraɪtfəl/ adjective old-fashioned especially British English 1 BADunpleasant or bad 不愉快的；可怕的；坏的 SYN awful, terrible There’s been a frightful accident. 发生了一起可怕的意外。2 VERYused to emphasize how bad something is 极度的，极大的；很糟的 SYN awful, terrible Her hair was a frightful mess. 她的头发乱得一团糟。Examples from the Corpusfrightful• Oh, Little Kai, it was frightful, and horrid.• Blanche thought she was frightful but listened to her breathless monologues with stoic patience.• This is a frightful cautionary tale, well told.• They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee.• Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door, begging for shelter.• Everyone was terrified of him on account of his frightful temper.• It was so frightful that my daughter Lilya and I stopped travelling by car together.fright·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable or unpleasant bad Corpus |
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