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Frightful vs Reprehensible - What's the difference?

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Frightful is a related term of reprehensible.


As adjectives the difference between frightful and reprehensible

is that frightful is (obsolete): full of fright; affrighted; frightened while reprehensible is reprehensible.

frightful

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* frightfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete): Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
  • *
  • Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
  • (Used as an intensifier)
    • We wasted a frightful amount of money on renovations.

    Synonyms

    * terrible * dreadful * alarming * fearful * terrific * awful * horrid * horrible * shocking

    reprehensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  • Deserving of reprehension.
  • * 1998 , Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, '' The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14
    • Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind'' and the reprehensible sequel ''Scarlett .

    Related terms

    * reprehensibility * reprehend * irreprehensible * reprehension

    Synonyms

    * at fault, deplorable, remiss

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reprehensible person; a villain.
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