fearsome

Meaning

  1. frightening, especially in appearance.
  2. (archaic, rare) fearful, frightened

Synonyms

dreadful
C1
frightening
C1
terrible
A2
awful
B1
dreaded
C2
horrendous
C2
dread
C2
horrific
C2
direful
horrible
B1
grisly
25k
dire
C2
gruesome
C2
fearful
C2
😨
formidable
C2
menacing
21k
scary
B1
frightful
C2
god-awful
29k
monstrous
C2
morbid
C2
outrageous
C1
portentous
raging
C1
startling
C2
suspenseful
C1
terrifying
C1
threatening
B2
tremendous
C1
ugly
B1
unnerving
30k
unspeakable
C2
vicious
C1
frightsome
abominable
20k
sucktastic
alarming
C2
appalling
C2
atrocious
21k
awesome
A2
awing
bad
A1
👎
creepy
B2
eerie
C1
evil
A2
fiendish
31k
fierce
C1
forbidding
29k
godforsaken
C2
gory
23k
Translations

effrayant
fürchterlich
redoutable
temible
espantoso

temible

korkunç
effroyable
temível

dehşetli

vreselijk
terribile
terrible
medonho
Frequency

C2
Etymology

Cognate with German
German
furchtsam
In summary

From fear + -some. Compare German furchtsam (“fearful”, obsolete also “fearsome”); this is more closely equivalent to English frightsome, however.

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