feared
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/fɪɹd/
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/fɪɹd/ · /fɪəd/
Definition of feared
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
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adj
- Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
- Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
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(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
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of fear
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English fard, feard, ferd, ferde, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.
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