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Pronounce Frightening as F R IY G HH T EH N IY N G.

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    Frightening phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'frightening'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of frightening: /frɪɡhtɛnɪnɡ/
    • Modern IPA representation of frightening: /frɪɡhtɛnɪnɡ/

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    List of meaning for frightening

    scary or intimidating

    terrorization, terrorisation, frightening(adj)

    the act of inspiring with fear

    awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(adj)

    causing fear or dread or terror

    "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

    causing fear

    a truly frightening movie

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    frightening in sentence

    1. The monstrous giant hoovered outside of the home, its huge shadow frightening the children inside.

    2. The horror film was so frightening enough to scare my twenty-year-old brother into hiding his face.

    3. The frightening movie made the audience members hyperventilate, their rapid breaths being uncontrollable.

    4. Scott and Hillary agreed to abridge their story, leaving out some of the more frightening details so that their parents wouldn’t be worried about them.

    5. With a fiery tone in his booming voice, the pastor began to declaim his frightening sermon in front his shocked church members.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term frightening

    They are frightening the people, they behead people, explode bombs in markets, they still create an atmosphere where it is impossible for people to escape from them.

    – Mustafa Bali

    If they take the position that they don't need any ceasefire, and they need to fight on to the end and to victory, then this conflict is going to carry on for a very long time. And it's frightening to imagine that.

    – Vitaly Churkin

    This was a very frightening incident for the victims, for, I’m sure, the neighbors, knowing what happened, the good part is that detectives were able to identify him.

    – Miranda Grossman

    For traditional marketers, and traditional advertising, it is a really scary place to be. And then for the influencers, the individuals who are the mouthpiece for it, it’s a really frightening position to be in because you have this big fat check in front of you and oftentimes you can be asked to compromise your value or your integrity to pay the rent.

    – Casey Neistat

    While it is in the nature of extremism to create enemies and frightening images, and to divide the world into us and them, the laureates show us something else, a young girl and a somewhat older man. One from Pakistan, one from India. One Muslim, the other Hindu. Both symbols of the world needs -- namely, more unity.

    – Thorbjorn Jagland

    I guess that if baiting young girls and sharing their embarrassment via a frightening YouTube video is the best we can do when it comes to 'educating' our kids, it's better than nothing.

    – Diana Graber

    For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents.

    – Mark Linden

    I understood, certainly not for the first time, that my son — and my sons both — were viewed as being dangerous, being potentially frightening to people who were white.

    – Jane Lazarre

    The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

    – Doris Day

    So he, in a sense, had a privileged upbringing, so to me that makes that even more sad that he'd want to use his gifts for such evil and such hatred. It's very frightening to me.

    – Diane Foley

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