feared

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/fɪɹd/
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/fɪɹd/ · /fɪəd/

Definition of feared

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

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

  1. Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
  2. Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete)Frightened, afraid.
    “Conſcience grows feared: the heart grows hardened: while you delay, the Devil rules and rejoyceth: […]”
    “[…] I’m maist feared to speak to him—and it’s an unco thing to hear ane o’ us speak that gate o’ a man—[…]”
    “That which hindered was thyself / More feared of [Julius] Cæsar, than of wrongfulness; […]”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of fear

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Etymology

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

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