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hair-raising

hair-raising adjective: causing fear or anxiety; scary.

Adjective

hair-raising (comparative more hair-raising, superlative most hair-raising)

  1. (idiomatic) Causing fear or anxiety; scary.
    Synonyms:
    hair-curling

hair-raising meaning in Malayalam and Thai

hair-raising in Malayalam

ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന

hair-raising in Thai

scary
ขนลุก, ขนหัวลุก

Synonyms of hair-raising

Forms of hair-raising

comparativemore hair-raising
superlativemost hair-raising
alternative formhair raising
alternative formhairraising

Words formed from hair-raising

Questions about hair-raising

What does hair-raising mean?
Hair-raising means causing fear or anxiety; scary.
What is hair-raising in Malayalam?
Hair-raising in Malayalam is ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന. See Hair-raising meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hair-raising?
Hair-raising is an adjective.

Words near hair-raising in the dictionary

  1. hair-pipe
  2. hair-pipes
  3. hair-pulling disorder
  4. hair-raiser
  5. hair-raisers
  6. hair-raising
  7. hair-raisingly
  8. hair-salt
  9. hair-salts
  10. hair-shirt
  11. hair-shirted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hair-raising (page history and authors); hair-raising (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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