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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹaɪtfəl/ Audio: en-us-frightful.ogg Forms: more frightful [comparative], most frightful [superlative]
enPR: frīt′fəl Etymology: From Middle English frightful (“afraid”), from Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”). Equivalent to fright + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|frightful||afraid}} Middle English frightful (“afraid”), {{inh|en|ang|forhtfull||fainthearted, timorous}} Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”), {{suffix|en|fright|ful|pos=adjective}} fright + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} frightful (comparative more frightful, superlative most frightful)
  1. (obsolete) Full of fright, whether
    Afraid, frightened.
    Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Fear
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  2. (obsolete) Full of fright, whether
    Timid, fearful, easily frightened.
    Tags: obsolete
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  3. Full of something causing fright, whether
    Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
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  4. Full of something causing fright, whether
    (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, dreadful, awful (also used as an intensifier).
    Tags: excessive
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: frightening, bad, frightfull [archaic] Derived forms: frightfully Translations (full of fright): уплашен (uplašen) (Bulgarian), effrayant (French), aterrador [masculine] (Galician), assustador (Portuguese), korkulu (Turkish), korku dolu (Turkish) Translations (full of that which causes fright): δασπλῆτις (dasplêtis) (Ancient Greek), страшен (strašen) (Bulgarian), ужасен (užasen) (Bulgarian), timiga (Esperanto), scanrúil (Irish), metūculōsus (Latin), schrakjlich (Plautdietsch), forchtsom (Plautdietsch), घोर (ghora) (Sanskrit), भीष्म (bhīṣma) (Sanskrit), temible (Spanish), dehşet (Turkish), korkunç (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'full of fright': 29 29 21 21 Disambiguation of 'full of that which causes fright': 26 26 24 24

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹaɪtfəl/ Audio: en-us-frightful.ogg Forms: more frightful [comparative], most frightful [superlative]
enPR: frīt′fəl Etymology: From Middle English frightful (“afraid”), from Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”). Equivalent to fright + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|frightful||afraid}} Middle English frightful (“afraid”), {{inh|en|ang|forhtfull||fainthearted, timorous}} Old English forhtfull (“fainthearted, timorous”), {{suffix|en|fright|ful|pos=adjective}} fright + -ful Head templates: {{en-adv}} frightful (comparative more frightful, superlative most frightful)
  1. (dialect) Frightfully; very. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-frightful-en-adv-ELQb3oXx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: frightfull [archaic]

Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈfrixtˌful/
Etymology: From Old English forhtful; equivalent to fright + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|forhtful}} Old English forhtful, {{af|enm|fright|-ful}} fright + -ful Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} frightful, {{enm-adj}} frightful
  1. (rare) afraid, frightened Tags: rare Synonyms: frigtful

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "full of fright",
      "word": "effrayant"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "full of fright",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aterrador"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "full of fright",
      "word": "assustador"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "full of fright",
      "word": "korkulu"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "full of fright",
      "word": "korku dolu"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "strašen",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "страшен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "užasen",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "ужасен"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "dasplêtis",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "δασπλῆτις"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "timiga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "scanrúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "metūculōsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "schrakjlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "forchtsom"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "ghora",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "घोर"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "bhīṣma",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "भीष्म"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "temible"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "dehşet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "full of that which causes fright",
      "word": "korkunç"
    }
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}

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    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
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          "text": "You had a lot of frightful good quotes. You must know half the books that there are.",
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          "ref": "1942, Philip Gibbs, The Long Alert, page 200:",
          "text": "It's a frightful long time, and I don't get many letters from him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Abbie Williams, Way Back:",
          "text": "But we ain't found a soul what knows you, honey-love, I am so frightful sorry to say.",
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      "word": "frigtful"
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}

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