alarming
Adjective
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Frightening because of an awareness of danger (synset 300194616)
similar to:
- appalling, dismaying - causing consternation
- atrocious, frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly - provoking horror
- awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible - causing fear or dread or terror
- baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish - extremely alarming
- chilling, scary, shivery, shuddery - provoking fear terror
- creepy, creepy-crawly - causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- formidable, redoubtable, unnerving - inspiring fear
- ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick - shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- hairy - hazardous and frightening
- petrifying - paralyzing with terror
- stupefying - shocking with surprise and consternation
- terrific, terrifying - causing extreme terror
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