1. frightful - Adjective
2. frightful - Adverb
3. frightful - Adjective Satellite
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. Françoise Sagan
A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. Anne Rice
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. Fanny Kemble
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. Thomas Hardy