Aterrador in english
Scary
pronunciation: skeri part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: skeri part of speech: adjective
In gestures
aterrador = frightening ; terrifying ; terrorising [terrorizing, -USA] ; frightful ; fear-inducing ; hideous ; hair-raising ; groundshaking ; creepy ; blood-curdling ; ghostly .
Example: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Example: To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.Example: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.Example: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Example: The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.Example: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Example: This 'hair-raising' experience will allow students to have a better understanding of what energy is and why it's so important.Example: The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.Example: For me, it's like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid.Example: The plot for this blood-curdling story was prepared by those who were converted to Islam.Example: Run for your lives! It seems that some normally angelic children from the neighbouhood have been replaced by some ghostly and ghoulish characters and are coming to get YOU!.