Usually means: Causing fear or extreme excitement.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hair-raising:

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  1. hair-raising: Merriam-Webster
  2. hair-raising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hair-raising: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hair-raising, hair-raising: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hair-raising: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hair-Raising, Hair-raising, hair-raising: Wordnik
  7. hair-raising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hair-raising: Wiktionary
  9. hair-raising: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hair-raising: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hair-raising: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hair-raising: Dictionary.com
  13. hair-raising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. hair-raising: Rhymezone
  15. hair-raising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hair-raising: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hair-raising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hair-raising: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hair-raising: Idioms

(Note: See hair-raisingly as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Causing fear or anxiety; scary.

Similar:
bloodcurdling, alarming, nightmarish, hairraising, hair raising, hairy, scary, fearful, scarey, terrifying, more...

Opposite:
unexciting, mundane, dull, boring, uneventful

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Similar:
bloodcurdling, alarming, nightmarish, hairraising, hair raising, hairy, scary, fearful, scarey, terrifying, more...

Opposite:
unexciting, mundane, dull, boring, uneventful



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