Dictionary

angstful en · ADJ

Etymology

From angst + -ful. Compare German angstvoll.

Meanings

1. Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive
   • 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. 2002, William Beinart, Peter Coates, Environment and History:
   • One by one the family are transformed by the pods, until only the angstful teen daughter is left to make her escape. 2013, Dr Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files:
   • 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. 2000, Colin Devenish, Limp Bizkit:

Forms

Antonyms

angstless

Synonyms

anxious

Translations (3)

fi ahdistunut (full of angst) · fi angstinen (full of angst) · fi tuskainen (full of angst)