Synonyms of terrifying

adjectiveFrightening or intimidating.

• affreuxDreadful; disturbing or frightening.
• alarmingCausing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
• spine-tinglingScary, exciting or exhilarating.
• appalling
• awful
• eldritchUnearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.
• butt-clenching informalSynonym of buttock-clenching.
• buttock-clenching informalSuspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
• dreadful
• fearful
• flaysome British, dialectalTerrifying; frightful.
• flesh-crawlingSynonym of skin-crawling.
• formidable
• freaky slangScary; frightening.
• frightening
• frightensomeCharacterized by frightening; inducing fear; scary.
• frightful
• ghastly
• ghostlySpooky; frightening.
• grislyHorrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
• hair-curlingExciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.
• hair-raisingCausing fear or anxiety; scary.
• horrible
• horridCausing horror or dread.
• horrificCausing horror; horrifying.
• horrifyingTending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
• horripilatingHorrendous, horrifying, terrifying.
• pulse-poundingThat increases the heartbeat rate, especially as a result of excitement or fear.
• scaring
• scaryCausing fear or anxiety.
• shocking
• skin-crawlingHorrifying or nauseating, so as to cause a creeping sensation in a person's skin.
• terrible
• terrorsomeCharacterised or marked by terror; frightful; frightening.
• buggish obsoleteFrightening; like a bugbear.
• dismayful obsoleteTerrifying.