adjective/pœ.ʁø/
fearful; anxious, nervous, neurotic; fearful, afraid; fearful, frightenable
Synonyms: anxieux, craintif, timoré, apeuré, effrayé, apeurable, effrayable
Inherited from Old French peoros, from Vulgar Latin *pavōrōsum, derived from Latin pavōrem (“fear”, noun). By surface analysis, peur + -eux.