frightful

«frightful» in Mova's school dictionary: Very bad, terrible or causing great fear — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Very bad, terrible or causing great fear. tree →

2) (informal) Very bad or unpleasant, as in «a frightful mess». tree →

sense in the lessons

describes a dreadful place, a sound or a sight that makes you afraid

examples

• The place had a frightful look. tree →
• He gave a frightful yell. tree →
• The storm was frightful, and the trees bent low. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frightful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.