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korkunç — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • appalling adj Shockingly bad or unpleasant; horrifying.
  • awesome adj Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring a sense of wonder.
  • dreaded adj Feared or anticipated with fear or unease.
  • dreadful adj Very bad, unpleasant, or shocking.
  • frightful adj Causing shock, horror, or fear; dreadful.
  • gory adj Covered in blood, or full of graphic bloody violence.
  • gruesome adj Causing horror or disgust, especially through graphic violence or death.
  • horrible adj Causing horror; extremely unpleasant or shocking.
  • horrific adj Causing horror; extremely frightening or shocking.
  • macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.
  • scary adjective Causing fear or unease.
  • terrible adj Very bad or unpleasant.
  • terrific adj Excellent; wonderful.

Senses

korkunç is used for these senses in English:

  • awesome Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]
  • dreaded Causing fear, dread, or terror.
  • dreadful Full of something causing dread, whether
  • frightful Full of something causing fright, whether
  • gory Covered with blood; very bloody.
  • gruesome Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
  • horrible Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  • horrible A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

awesome — full definition

  1. adj Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring a sense of wonder.
  2. adj informal: Excellent; really great.

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