Frightening in a sentence as a noun

They can be frightening -- especially since we don't know how much deeper the programs go. Still, they are the largely the result of people trying to defend the country from terrorism.

In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general.

I bet they can predict your future with frightening accuracy, or they will be able to after another decade or so of data anyway.

For me, what's frightening about this is how often I used to reflect on my own life, and at times, couldn't actually be sure whether I was useful or just overrated.

If that's the case, it betrays a level of capability that ought to be frightening for the operators of other anonymous Tor services.

This is appalling to read, and it's frightening how blasé they are about blatantly illegal and unethical non-competition.

Frightening in a sentence as an adjective

"It's comforting to frame this as a political issue rather than a criminal one, because the alternative is too exhausting and frightening to grapple with.

" It's frightening to see countless idiotic apps get institutional money by basically making derivative products of other **** apps.

As a non-American who occasionally attends conferences in the States, this entire incident is rather frightening.

What's truly frightening is this line from the Guardian's article on the topic:> The NSA describes strong decryption programs as the "price of admission for the US to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace".What does that even mean?

Soylent paints a disgustingly frightening dystopia where humans are fed 100% "correct" food to allow them to continue being cogs in the business machine, not stop for lunch during the day in the office, and be able to pull those extra longs evenings and nights to get more work done.

Frightening definitions

noun

the act of inspiring with fear

See also: terrorization terrorisation

adjective

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"