bloodcurdling

1. 1.

   extremely alarming

   Synonymshair-raisingnightmarish

   Similaralarming

Questions about bloodcurdling

What does bloodcurdling mean?

bloodcurdling means "extremely alarming".

How many syllables are in bloodcurdling?

bloodcurdling has 3 syllables: blood-curd-ling. The stress falls on "blood".

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.