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frightful

adj
/ˈfɹaɪtfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English frightful (“afraid”), from Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”). Equivalent to fright + -ful.

  1. inherited from forhtfull
  2. inherited from frightful

Definitions

  1. Full of fright, whether

    • Ðis frigtful ðus a-biden,

  2. Full of something causing fright, whether

  3. Frightfully

    Frightfully; very.

    • You had a lot of frightful good quotes. You must know half the books that there are.
    • It's a frightful long time, and I don't get many letters from him.
    • But we ain't found a soul what knows you, honey-love, I am so frightful sorry to say.

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Derived

frightfully, frightfulness, unfrightful

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frightful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA