angstful

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English

Etymology

From angst +‎ -ful. Compare German angstvoll.

Adjective

angstful (comparative more angstful, superlative most angstful)

  1. 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, 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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