frightful
adj. 可怕的; 驚人的; 令人毛骨悚然的; 討厭的,醜惡的
Frightful means very bad or unpleasant.
My father was unable to talk about the war, it was so frightful.
我父親沒法談論那場戰爭,那太可怕了。
Frightful is used to emphasize the extent or degree of something, usually something bad.
He got himself into a frightful muddle...
他把自己捲進了一個不可收拾的亂攤子。
What frightful gossips people are, even one's best friends.
人們最愛散佈流言蜚語,哪怕是自己最好的朋友也不例外。
1. provoking horror;
2. extreme in degree;
3. extremely distressing;
afraid, fearful, awful, dreadful, frightful, terrible, horrible, terrific, appalling
這些形容詞均含"害怕的,怕的"之意。
It was a frightful storm.
那是一次可怕的風暴.
The situation is frightful, but it's just piling on the agony to keep discussing it.
情況很可怕, 可是還一個勁兒地議論讓人覺得更可怕.
Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.
兩個旁觀者又嚇了一跳, 因為他令人害怕地突然轉向了她.
The smell was frightful.
這氣味難聞極了.
The battle resulted in a frightful slaughter.
戰鬥以可怕的大屠殺告終.
adj. 可怕的
amazingdistressingfearfulformidableoutrageousgrievousredoubtableawfulterriblefearsomesurprisingstartlingterrifyingdarkdirethreateninggrimdreadfulappallingbalefulshockingharrowing
adj. 討厭的
unpleasingunpleasantdisagreeable
adj. 駭人聽聞的
horridhorriblerepulsiverepugnanthorrendousrevoltingnastyhideousunspeakabledetestableabhorrentdisgustingghastlyatrociousodiousgruesomemonstrousgrislyloathsomevileabominable
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