feared

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//fɪːd//
United Kingdom//fɪjəd//
United States//fɪɹd//
Australia//fɪəd//
New Zealand//fiəd//

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

adjective

1
Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
2
Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
3
obsoleteFrightened, 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; […]

Etymology

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

verb

1
Also a form of fearsimple past and past participle of fear

Etymology

From Middle English ferd, feerd, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.

Forms

comparative: more feared
superlative: most feared

Fe · American Library Association abbreviation for forty-eighth, a…fear · A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or…Fear · A surname.

feared · Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.

fearful · Frightening; causing fear.fearing · Exhibiting fear.Fearing · A surname.

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