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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing or able to cause fear: appalling, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, redoubtable, scary, terrible, tremendous. See FEAR. 2. Gruesomely suggestive of ghosts or death: cadaverous, deadly, deathlike, deathly, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral. See LIVE. 3. Shockingly repellent: grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre. See BEAUTIFUL. 4. Very bad: appalling, awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, horrendous, horrible, shocking, terrible. See GOOD.
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