frighteningly

[US]/'fraitniŋli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. in a manner that causes fear or sudden alarm

Example Sentences

The movie was frighteningly realistic.

She was frighteningly good at predicting the future.

The roller coaster ride was frighteningly fast.

His performance was frighteningly intense.

The storm was frighteningly powerful.

The haunted house looked frighteningly real.

Her scream was frighteningly loud.

The test results were frighteningly bad.

The clown's makeup was frighteningly creepy.

The dark alley was frighteningly quiet.

Real-world Examples

O'Brien says such an outcome seems frighteningly real.

Source: NPR News February 2019 Compilation

But there's something frighteningly fragile about them too.

Source: TED Talks (Video Version) Bilingual Selection

And when you look elsewhere, often wedo know frighteningly little.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

From this vantage point, the plague of trees was frighteningly clear.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

The weeks preceding the fires in the Midwest had been frighteningly dry.

Source: Encyclopædia Britannica

As recently as the 1980s, however, there was a place that was somehow even more frighteningly claustrophobic.

Source: Realm of Legends

The word " lost — lost — lost" dinged frighteningly in her heart like a death bell sounding.

Source: Gone with the Wind

The house was frighteningly still, quieter even than when Frank had lain in the parlor just a few hours before.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Or more frighteningly, what if the Iranian government could have?

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) November 2018 Collection

Frighteningly, each of these positions has its adult equivalent.

Source: Sociology of Social Relations (Video Version)

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