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Definition: Frighteningly |
FrighteninglyAdverb1. In an alarming manner; "the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: FrighteninglySynonym: scarily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Frighteningly |
| English words defined with "frighteningly": scarily. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frighteningly": close-up ♦ zoom-in . (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Eric Hoffer | How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Frighteningly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frighteningly" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 89 | 34,931 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "frighteningly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | schreckerregende. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | spaventosamente (horribly, terribly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighteninglyfray pavorosamente. (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frighteningly" (pronounced frī"tuninglē) |
| 7 | -t u n i ng l ē | threateningly. |
| 6 | -u n i ng l ē | maddeningly. |
| 5 | -n i ng l ē | frowningly, stunningly, warningly. |
| 4 | -i ng l ē | accordingly, accusingly, admiringly, agonizingly, alarmingly, amazingly, amusingly, appallingly, appealingly, approvingly, astonishingly, astoundingly, breathtakingly, charmingly, chillingly, compellingly, confusingly, convincingly, correspondingly, demandingly, depressingly, devastatingly, disappointingly, disarmingly, disparagingly, distressingly, disturbingly, embarrassingly, exceedingly, excruciatingly, fittingly, fleetingly, frustratingly, glowingly, grudgingly, haltingly, hauntingly, increasingly, interestingly, intriguingly, jokingly, kiddingly, knowingly, laughingly, longingly, lovingly, menacingly, misleadingly, movingly, numbingly, obligingly, overwhelmingly, painstakingly, pleasingly, reassuringly, refreshingly, resoundingly, screamingly, seemingly, shockingly, smilingly, soothingly, sparingly, sportingly, startlingly, strikingly, surprisingly, tantalizingly, tellingly, unfailingly, unhesitatingly, unknowingly, unsurprisingly, unthinkingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, willingly, wittingly. |
| 3 | -ng l ē | gangly, kingly, Langley, strongly, wrongly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: frightening, gentrifying. | |
-3 letters: fingerling, freighting, lightening, lightering, refighting, relighting. | |
-4 letters: filtering, fingering, firelight, flightier, flighting, frighting, infighter, lightning, lingering, nightlife, rehinging, ringingly. | |
-5 letters: feigning, feinting, felinity, fighting, fileting, filthier, finitely, flinging, flintier, flinting, flirting, frighten, fringing, gentling, gentrify, gingerly, girthing, glinting, grifting, hireling, inflight, infringe, inhering, lighting, neighing, refiling, refining, reflying, reifying, reigning, relining. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 67 68 74 65 6E 69 6E 67 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. --. .... - . -. .. -. --. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i g h t e n i n g l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0067 0068 0074 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40847573748671807580737891 |
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