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Thrilling vs Frightening - What's the difference?

thrilling | frightening |

As verbs the difference between thrilling and frightening

is that thrilling is present participle of lang=en while frightening is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between thrilling and frightening

is that thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement while frightening is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.

As a noun thrilling

is a thrill.

thrilling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
    • ----

    frightening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
    • The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
  • (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.

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    Verb

    (head)
    • The scientist was frightening the timid children.