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hairraising

hairraising is the alternative form of hair-raising.

Meaning of hair-raising

Adjective

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

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

Forms of hairraising

comparativemore hairraising
superlativemost hairraising

Questions about hairraising

What is hairraising the alternative form of?
Hairraising is the alternative form of hair-raising.

Words near hairraising in the dictionary

  1. hairpluck
  2. hairplucks
  3. hairpuller
  4. hairpullers
  5. hairpulling
  6. hairraising
  7. hairs
  8. hairs in the gate
  9. hairs' breadths
  10. hairsbreadth
  11. hairsbreadths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairraising (page history and authors); hair-raising (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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