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Meaning of affrightful | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

frightful

obsolete

Examples

“[…]so when he awakes from sleep, and says to himself, "Shall I be no otherwise when I am dead, than I was even now when I was asleep?" he may be ashamed of his waking dreams, and of his melancholy fancying out a horrid and an affrightful figure of that death which is so like sleep.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

Affrilachian affrontable affrontant affronté affronted affrontée