angstful

comparative more angstful · superlative most angstful

1. Full of angst; fearful; apprehensive

   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

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: anxious