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Icon for pávido — frightened
pávido
frightened
Reviewed by: David WestfallCofounder
Filled with fear or dread
Encoding Strategies:
linguistic
Encoding image for pavor + -ido
dread
+
-ido
adjective suffix
Pávido means frightened and is pavor0, "dread," turned into an adjective, so it describes someone full of dread.
pávido
frightened, timid (literary)
Describes someone filled with fear. It isn't very common and mainly shows up in poetry and literary writing.
El niño pávido se escondió detrás de su madreThe frightened child hid behind his mother
Avanzaba pávido por el pasillo oscuroHe moved timid down the dark hallway