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Definition of frightful adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

frightful

adjective

NAmE//ˈfraɪtfl//

(old-fashioned)

1(informal) used to emphasize how bad something is synonym awful, terrible It was absolutely frightful!

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2very serious or unpleasant synonym awful, terrible a frightful accident

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