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Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne.

In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

The quality of being frightful.

Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of…

Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. A dread eternity! how surely mine. Young.

Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.

Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

Frightful; causing fear [Scotch] "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak . The ridges of grim war. Milton.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.

A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. Macaulay.

Fearful; frightful. [Obs.] I. Watts.

Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.