scareful, a. Now rare exc. dial.
(ˈskɛəfʊl)
[f. scare n. + -ful.]
Terrifying, alarming.
| 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 144 The scarefull erne With hooked talents trussing up a hare. 1655 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. verse 13, vii. (1656) 370 The evil day is not such a scareful thing to thee that art a Christian, as thou shouldest start for it. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer iii, It's skearful to think for how many causes one gets to be your inimy. |