hair-curling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.
Example Sentences
- "But, first and foremost, "Retreat with Stilwell" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you."
- "Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man."
- "[T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity."
- "If the walls . . . could talk, they would reveal some hair-curling secrets."
Inflected Forms
more hair-curling (comparative)
most hair-curling (superlative)
hair curling (alternative)
haircurling (alternative)