English

Adjective

affrightful ‎(comparative more affrightful, superlative most affrightful)

1. (obsolete) frightful
   • 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions:

     […] 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.