What does hair-raising mean?

hair-raising means "extremely alarming".

How many syllables are in hair-raising?

hair-raising has 3 syllables and divides as hair--rai-sing 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 hair-raising?

Close synonyms include bloodcurdling, 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 hair-raising a common word?

hair-raising is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Hair-raising — meaning and 2 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
extremely alarming
Synonymsbloodcurdling nightmarish
Similaralarming

Questions about hair-raising

What does hair-raising mean?: hair-raising means "extremely alarming".
How many syllables are in hair-raising?: hair-raising has 3 syllables and divides as hair--rai-sing 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 hair-raising?

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