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scareful

scareful adjective: full of scare.

Adjective

scareful (comparative more scareful, superlative most scareful)

  1. (rare) Full of scare.
    • ‘Twas sort of scareful, that midnight ride;1884, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses’ Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems, Toronto; 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Outlook Verlag, 20 September 2018, →ISBN, section XLVI, page 14
    • “Do you want the neighbors to hear us talkin' about the doctor's gettin' married ?” / “No, but you are so scareful.” / “Scareful or not scareful, I shouldn’t be surprised if he’d get married some day.”1895, Augusta Campbell Watson, Off Lynnport Light: A Novel, E. P. Dutton, page 249

Forms of scareful

comparativemore scareful
superlativemost scareful

Origin of scareful

From scare + -ful.

Questions about scareful

What does scareful mean?
Scareful means full of scare.
What part of speech is scareful?
Scareful is an adjective.

Words near scareful in the dictionary

  1. scaredy-cats
  2. scarefest
  3. scarefests
  4. scarefire
  5. scarefires
  6. scareful
  7. scarehead
  8. scareheaded
  9. scareheading
  10. scareheads
  11. scareless

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