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English
Etymology
From scare + -ful.
Adjective
scareful (comparative more scareful, superlative most scareful) (rare)
- Full of scare.
1884, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses’ Pass, Malcolm's Katie and Other Poems, Toronto; 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Outlook Verlag, 2018 September 20, →ISBN, section XLVI, page 14:‘Twas sort of scareful, that midnight ride;
1895, Augusta Campbell Watson, Off Lynnport Light: A Novel, E. P. Dutton, page 249:“Do you want the neighbors to hear us talkin' about the doctor's gettin' married ?” / “No, but you are so scareful.” / “Scareful or not scareful, I shouldn’t be surprised if he’d get married some day.”
1907, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, “Chapter V”, in Captain June, →ISBN:Sometimes she would tell of the old samurai and their dark deeds of revenge, of attacks on castles, and fights in the moats, and the imaginary clashing of swords and shouts of men would get so real to June that he would say: "I don't want any more scareful ones tonight. Please tell me about the little mosquito boy."
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