Meaning

3 senses
  1. Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.

  2. Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.

  3. (dialectal, obsolete)Frightened, afraid.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English fard, feard, ferd, ferde, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.

From Middle English fard, feard, ferd, ferde, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.

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Forms

more feared, most feared
Comparativemore feared Lesson
Superlativemost feared Lesson

regular

Synonyms

23 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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