"fearsome" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more fearsome [comparative], most fearsome [superlative]
Etymology: From fear + -some. Compare German furchtsam (“fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome”), which this is more closely equivalent to English frightsome, however. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fear|some}} fear + -some, {{cog|de|furchtsam|t=fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome}} German furchtsam (“fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome”), {{m+|en|frightsome}} English frightsome Head templates: {{en-adj}} fearsome (comparative more fearsome, superlative most fearsome)
  1. frightening, especially in appearance. Categories (topical): Appearance Translations (frightening, especially in appearance): страшен (strašen) (Bulgarian), страховит (strahovit) (Bulgarian), temible (Catalan), 可怕的 (Chinese Mandarin), pelottava (Finnish), effroyable (French), effrayant (French), საშინელი (sašineli) (Georgian), შემაშინებელი (šemašinebeli) (Georgian), fürchterlich (German), furchterregend (German), scanrúil (Irish), ഭയാനക (bhayānaka) (Malayalam), wewehi (Maori), wehiwehi (Maori), forchtsom (Plautdietsch), straszny (Polish), страшный (strašnyj) (Russian), грозный (groznyj) (Russian), zastràšujūćī (Serbo-Croatian), temible (Spanish), skräckinjagande (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fearsome-en-adj-Hy~67zwW Disambiguation of Appearance: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -some Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -some: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'frightening, especially in appearance': 91 9
  2. (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened Tags: archaic, rare
    Sense id: en-fearsome-en-adj-hRde8gii
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fear, fearful

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      "sense": "frightening, especially in appearance",
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