Usually means: Causing fear or anxiety; scary.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word frightening:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. frightening: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. frightening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frightening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frightening: Vocabulary.com
  5. Frightening, frightening: Wordnik
  6. frightening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. frightening: Wiktionary
  8. Frightening, frightening: Dictionary.com
  9. frightening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. The Frightening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Frightening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. frightening: Rhymezone
  13. frightening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. frightening: Free Dictionary
  15. frightening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. frightening: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frightening: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frightening: Idioms

(Note: See frighten as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
adjective:  (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

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