| 词汇 | frightful |
| 释义 | frightful adjective old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈfraɪt.fəl/ us /ˈfraɪt.fəl/ used to emphasize what you are saying, especially how bad something is: （尤用于强调糟糕的程度）可怕的，讨厌的 The weather outside was frightful.外面的天气非常可怕。 Of course the cleaning is a frightful bore.清洁打扫的活儿当然是极其乏味的。 Synonyms atrocious(VERY BAD) horrible bad weather, conditions, situations, etc. badIf the weather is bad, we'll have to find something else to do. poorShe's 87 and in poor health. direThe predictions for the economy are dire. grimShe was quickly brought back to the grim reality of her life. awfulThe smell from the bins was awful. Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught from hellidiom fun ghastliness Gothically noxiously objectionable objectionably odious odiously unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable frightful | American Dictionaryfrightful adjective us/ˈfrɑɪt·fəl/ great or extreme: The weather is just too frightful to go out. shocking or extremely unpleasant: People sometimes do frightful things to their pets. Examples of frightfulfrightful He flies away and 'in the same instant, the scene changes and all that is now seen is a frightful desert'. But a voice, even an instrumental one, that betrays no subjective will - that obscures the cruel designs of its player - is a frightful thing. A frightful truth, until now enveloped in a thick fog, begins to emerge into public view. That he succeeded in writing his poetry under such frightful conditions is in itself an affirmation of life and art. They were drenched in grease, in tatters, wore male clothes, frightful faces, shameless. Yet it is from the bosom of this desert district that has descended the most frightful visitation ever known to have desolated the island. Any object that looks frightful or is not pleasant to one's sight is referred to as 'juju'. On the top of this comes this frightful depression, when debts are a terrific burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under his direction we have succeeded in having, if not exactly amicable debates, at least debates without the frightful animosity that is sometimes manifested elsewhere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard a great deal about the frightful dangers of monopoly, about this hydra-headed monster, this tyrant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We suffer terrible traffic jams, with people in their cars breathing in poisonous gases; and we suffer frightful noise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The other way is to make the consequences of war so frightful that no potential adversary could contemplate starting one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly, they have always had an unfortunate faculty of saddling themselves with the most frightful régimes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It immediately suggests the most frightful possibilities, perhaps that one is to have an atomic power station built among one's crops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that searching for phonetically sound words with which to teach a child to read certainly makes for this frightful boredom in reading. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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