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hair-raisingly
adverb
uk /ˈheəˌreɪ.zɪŋ.li/ us /ˈherˌreɪ.zɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel very frightened, nervous, or excited:
We heard a hair-raisingly terrifying scream come from somewhere in the woods.
The mountainous area has a lot of hair-raisingly narrow and twisting roads, and you have be on guard while driving on them.
Related word
hair-raising
The circus performers awed the crowd with some hair-raisingly dangerous stunts.
The roller-coaster ride through a haunted cave is hair-raisingly intense.
The actress gives a hair-raisingly real performance as a widowed innkeeper with a dark past.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing things that cause fear
awesome
awesomely
awesomeness
bloodcurdling
chilling
fearsome
fearsomely
frightening
frighteningly
greasily
intimidating
intimidatingly
scarifying
scarifyingly
scarily
spooky
terrifying
terrifyingly
traumatic
traumatically
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