Synonyms:
atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
Meaning: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
Synonyms:
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
Meaning: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
Usage examples
That is frightful.
I kept thinking of frightful things.
There was something in the tone that seemed to me unusually frightful.
"And does the husband of this frightful creature still live?" said Aramis.
Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.
To be sure, I shan't be able to stir out this day or two: for I am a frightful spectacle!
I sprang forward quickly, and, with a deep shudder, threw the frightful thing into the sea.
There were to be seen great scoundrels who had startled the world with their frightful crimes.
'Just see that frightful dwarf--would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?'
"Dear!" said she, "what a sad thing it is that he should be so very frightful, since he is so good-tempered!"