Usually means: Causing fear in an extreme way.
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  1. frighteningly: Merriam-Webster
  2. frighteningly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frighteningly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frighteningly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Frighteningly, frighteningly: Wordnik
  6. frighteningly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. frighteningly: Wiktionary
  8. frighteningly: Dictionary.com
  9. frighteningly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. frighteningly: Rhymezone
  11. frighteningly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. frighteningly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. frighteningly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frighteningly: Legal dictionary

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  1. frighteningly: Idioms

(Note: See frighten as well.)

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adverb:  In a frightening or terrifying manner.
adverb:  Very; beyond usual expectation so as to cause surprise or concern.

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