frightening

柯林斯詞典

1. ADJ If something is frightening, it makes you feel afraid, anxious, or nervous. 令人恐懼的
It was a very frightening experience and they were very courageous. 那是一次非常令人恐懼的經(jīng)歷，但他們非常勇敢。
2. frighteninglyADV 令人恐懼地
The country is frighteningly close to possessing nuclear weapons. 令人恐懼的是，該國離擁有核武器為期不遠。

The mask was so lifelike it was quite frightening.
The deathly pallor of her skin was frightening.
She found the film extremely frightening.
The firefighters had a frightening task ahead of them.
There's a frightening similarity between this incident and one that occurred last year .