angstful
English
Etymology
From angst + -ful. Compare German angstvoll.
Adjective
angstful (comparative more angstful, superlative most angstful)
- Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive
- 2000, Colin Devenish, Limp Bizkit:
- It's a lot harder to write music and to get more melodic and try to actually have songs within those heavy, droning, angstful power chords.
- 2002, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations William Beinart, William Beinart, Peter Coates, Environment and History:
- In our current, rather foreshortened view, fuelled by a powerful and 'angstful modern environmentalism, the destructive capacities of modern western society have come in for particular scrutiny.
- 2013, Dr Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files:
- One by one the family are transformed by the pods, until only the angstful teen daughter is left to make her escape.
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Synonyms
- anxious
Antonyms
- angstless
Translations
full of angst
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