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effrayant — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chilling adj Causing fear or horror.
  • fearful adj Feeling afraid or anxious.
  • fearsome adj Frightening, especially in appearance or reputation.
  • frightening adj Causing fear; scary.
  • frightful adj Causing shock, horror, or fear; dreadful.
  • ghastly adj Extremely unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying.
  • macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.
  • spooky adj Eerie or unsettling, in a way that suggests ghosts or the supernatural.

Senses

effrayant is used for these senses in English:

  • chilling Causing mild fear.
  • fearful Frightening; causing fear.
  • fearsome frightening, especially in appearance.
  • frightening Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.
  • ghastly Horrifyingly shocking.
  • macabre Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
  • spooky (informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.

chilling — full definition

  1. adj Causing fear or horror.
  2. adj Making something cold.
  3. noun The process of cooling something down.

fearful — full definition

  1. adj Feeling afraid or anxious.
  2. adj Causing fear; terrifying.
  3. adj Very bad or severe (informal intensifier).

Related French words