fearsome

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

fearsome (comparative more fearsome, superlative most fearsome)

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

Related terms

• fear
• fearful

Translations

frightening, especially in appearance

• Bulgarian: страшен (bg) (strašen), страховит (bg) (strahovit)
• Catalan: temible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可怕的

• Finnish: pelottava (fi)
• French: effroyable (fr), effrayant (fr)
• Georgian: საშინელი (sašineli), შემაშინებელი (šemašinebeli)
• German: fürchterlich (de), furchterregend (de)
• Irish: scanrúil
• Malayalam: ഭയാനക (ml) (bhayānaka)
• Maori: wewehi, wehiwehi
• Plautdietsch: forchtsom
• Polish: straszny (pl)
• Portuguese: temível (pt)
• Russian: страшный (ru) (strašnyj), грозный (ru) (groznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: zastràšujūćī
• Spanish: temible (es)
• Swedish: skräckinjagande (sv)