- difficult to understand scary like a haunted house - Spine-chilling - Taking car into outskirts of Sydney is frightening - Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. - Subject to sudden alarm. - Causing fright; alarming.
- Annoy support for source of irritation - Cause of annoyance - Irritant - Nuisance insect on grizzly - Object of dread - Pet hate - Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that
causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also,
something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.