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1. Definition: 1. inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"

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1. Definition: 1. provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"

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1. Definition: 1. causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling"

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1. Definition: 1. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

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1. Definition: 1. unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

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1. Definition: 1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"

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1. Definition: 1. experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

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1. Definition: 1. cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

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1. Definition: 1. 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"

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1. Definition: 1. frightening because of an awareness of danger

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1. Definition: 1. 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"

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1. Definition: 1. to stimulate to action ; "..startled him awake"; "galvanized into action"

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1. Definition: 1. defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

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