Adjective: frightsome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more frightsome |
| Superlative | most frightsome |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like frightsome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From fright + -some. Cognate with Scots frichtsom (“frightsome”). Compare also German furchtsam. See: German Adjectives '
furchtsam'.