Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised) "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
S: (v) alarm, alert (warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness) "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"
Adjective
S: (adj) alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
S: (adj) atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly (provoking horror) "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
S: (adj) awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible (causing fear or dread or terror) "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
S: (adj) baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening (threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments) "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
S: (adj) creepy, creepy-crawly (causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin) "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling"
S: (adj) formidable, redoubtable, unnerving (inspiring fear) "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"
S: (adj) ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick (shockingly repellent; inspiring horror) "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
S: (adj) hairy (hazardous and frightening) "hairy moments in the mountains"