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What is the adjective for frighten?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fright and frighten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

frightful
  1. (obsolete) Full of fright, whether
    1. Afraid, frightened.
    2. Timid, fearful, easily frightened.
  2. Full of something causing fright, whether
    1. Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
    2. (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, dreadful, awful (also used as an intensifier).
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “My only fear is that it's so easy to laugh at politicians and their idiot supporters that you risk forgetting how evil and stupid they really are, allowing them to stumble their way into a frightful mess we all end up having to pay for.”
      “Electromagnetic pollution, which has been described as a serious killer in the office, actually is not frightful at all, say experts.”
      “The thunderstorm was frightful, with lightning striking every few seconds and winds reaching hurricane force.”
frightening
frightsome
fright
frightless
  1. Free from fright; fearless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream.”
      “Elliot put his frightless eyes near mine and gave an equine snort.”
frightened
frightfull
  1. Archaic form of frightful.
frightenable
  1. Capable of being frightened.
frightfuller
  1. comparative form of frightful: more frightful
frighted
frighting
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