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 Translation for 'frightful' from English to Latin
SYNO atrocious | awful | fearful | ...
atrox {adj}frightful
horrifer {adj}frightful
horridus {adj}frightful [horrid]
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Translation for 'frightful' from English to Latin

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frightful
atrox {adj}

horrifer {adj}
frightful [horrid]
horridus {adj}
Usage Examples English
  • Twin brothers who are probably the youngest members of the crew. One more shy and frightful, the other more reckless.
  • The Thirty Years' War was frightful for Dexheim. A document from 1647, and thus one year before the Peace of Westphalia, gives an impression.
  • The investigative adventure that takes place on the island of Dead Reefs off the coast of England, infamous for the wicked pirate inhabitants and a frightful curse.
  • The Anglo Saxon Herbal recommends its use to prevent "frightful nocturnal goblins and terrible sights and dreams".
  • The Wampus cat is a cat-like creature in American folklore that varies widely in appearance, ranging from frightful to comical, depending on region.

  • In 1651 and 1652 there was famine in Yucatán. The Indians hid their seeds from the Spanish, but to no effect. They also suffered frightful hunger.
  • Although skeptical of the paranormal, he is soon trapped in the room where he experiences bizarre and frightful events.
  • The reference was to Cardinal Jacques de Vitry, who met her and recounted that she would throw herself into burning furnaces and there suffer great tortures for extended times, uttering frightful cries, yet coming forth with no sign of burns upon her.
  • In James Joyce's 1939 novel "Finnegans Wake" (page 34.6), an informer who is spreading nasty rumours about the main character is described as "Ibid, commender of the frightful".
  • Browne once stated he would rather have not been born, calling it "frightful to bring anyone into this world".

  • The first step in the process of demonization, according to Morelli, is the reduction of a whole country to a single person, as if nobody lived in Iraq, except Saddam Hussein with his "scary" Republican guards and his "frightful" weapons of mass destruction.
  • are called lamia, and that all these refer to frightful beings.
  • Geyer analyzes Mark 4:35-6:56 under the aspects of “the anomalous frightful”, uncertainty and indeterminacy, which foreshadow the crucifixion.
  • The obelisk was unveiled in 1948, in time for the 50th anniversary of the frightful fire.
  • They had the most frightful rows, but unlike Cook's own family, Bill Crooks stayed for nearly 50 years".

  • Rhode Island: Poor little I, what will become of me? this leap is of a frightful size—I sink into despondency.
  • In Scotland, a wirry-cow [...] is a bugbear, goblin, ghost, ghoul or other frightful object. Sometimes the term is used for the Devil or a scarecrow.
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