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Frightful vs Spooky - What's the difference?

frightful | spooky |

As adjectives the difference between frightful and spooky

is that frightful is (obsolete): full of fright; affrighted; frightened while spooky is eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.

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

    spooky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural
  • unpredictably excitable; skittish (used especially of horses)

    • Derived terms

    * spookily