Chilling
Chilling adjective - Uncomfortably cool.
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Nightmarish and chilling are semantically related In some cases you can use "Nightmarish" instead an adjective "Chilling".
Nightmarish
Nightmarish adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Chilling and nightmarish are semantically related in frightening topic. Sometimes you can use "Chilling" instead an adjective "Nightmarish".
Nearby Word: nightmare
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- disturbing and chilling
- disturbing and nightmarish
- dreadful and chilling
- dreadful and nightmarish
- horrible and chilling
- horrible and nightmarish
- appalling and chilling
- appalling and nightmarish
- shocking and chilling
- shocking and nightmarish
- ghastly and chilling
- ghastly and nightmarish
- horrid and chilling
- horrid and nightmarish
Both words in one sentence
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His blood-chilling scream made it all the more nightmarish.
Source: Film / Batman -
The UPA adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", from the increasingly frantic narration to the surreal, nightmarish visuals to the creepy music to the final chilling shot from the narrator's point of view, inside the cell of a grey-walled insane asylum.
- Turned all around as early as 1932's Freaks, whose title card is accompanied by some deeply chilling, Circus of Fear type music and stylized, nightmarish images of most of the titular characters.
Source: Soundtrack Dissonance / Film
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