angstful

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.

Synonyms

• anxious

Antonyms

• angstless

Translations

full of angst

• Finnish: ahdistunut (fi), tuskainen (fi), angstinen (informal)