Frightening
Frightening adjective - Causing fear.
Wonderful and frightening are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wonderful" instead an adjective "Frightening".
Wonderful
Wonderful adjective - Causing wonder or astonishment.
Frightening and wonderful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Frightening" instead an adjective "Wonderful".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The brightest and most wonderful things in nature twisted and mutated into something frightening, something repulsive and wrong by a mindless, faceless force that still somehow manages to seem outright malevolent.
Source: The Topic of Cancer - But whereas Doom played this incident as a wonderful way to demonstrate one's masculine virility by filling demons full of lead, Half-Life shows you exactly how frightening this kind of situation would be in the real world.
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Wonderful and Frightening. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/frightening/wonderful
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