a. [f. FRIGHT sb. + -SOME.] a. Causing fright; frightful. b. Feeling fright, full of fear.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., II. 94–5. How lonely and frightsome it would be for her to be left by herself, in a place where such foul murders had lately been perpetrated, and where, as was reported, the ghost of the deceased had already been seen.
1827. Carlyle, German Romance, I. 306. Edwald and Froda had their own almost frightsome thoughts on the matter.
