单词	frightful
释义	frightfulfright‧ful /ˈfraɪtfəl/ adjective old-fashioned especially British English Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Blanche thought she was frightful but listened to her breathless monologues with stoic patience. 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. Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door, begging for shelter. Oh, Little Kai, it was frightful, and horrid. They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee. This is a frightful cautionary tale, well told. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► most · Or she could, if she thought of it in time, say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar.· Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivefrightenedfrighteningfrightfulnounfrightfrightenersadverbfrighteninglyfrightfullyverbfrighten 1unpleasant or bad SYN  awful, terrible:  There’s been a frightful accident.2used to emphasize how bad something is SYN  awful, terrible:  Her hair was a frightful mess.
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