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# frightful

«frightful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very bad, terrible or causing great fear** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very bad, terrible or causing great fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#m1)

2) (informal) Very bad or unpleasant, as in «a frightful mess». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

describes a dreadful place, a sound or a sight that makes you afraid

### examples

- The place had a frightful look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x1)
- He gave a frightful yell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x2)
- The storm was frightful, and the trees bent low. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frightful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frightful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.