What does bloodcurdling mean?

bloodcurdling means "extremely alarming".

How many syllables are in bloodcurdling?

bloodcurdling has 3 syllables and divides as blood-curd-ling under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bloodcurdling?

Close synonyms include hair-raising, nightmarish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bloodcurdling a common word?

bloodcurdling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Bloodcurdling — meaning and 2 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
extremely alarming
Synonymshair-raising nightmarish
Similaralarming

Questions about bloodcurdling

What does bloodcurdling mean?: bloodcurdling means "extremely alarming".
How many syllables are in bloodcurdling?: bloodcurdling has 3 syllables and divides as blood-curd-ling under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.
What is another word for bloodcurdling?

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