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adjective

Fearful adj.

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. "Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power."

Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. "What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?"

Indicating, or caused by, fear. "Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh."

Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. "This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God." "Death is a fearful thing." "In dreams they fearful precipices tread."

Synonyms: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible; distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.

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"Fearful" Quotes from Famous Books

... understand what happens as the buoyant carbon vapors soar upwards through the sun's atmosphere. They attain at last to an elevation where the fearful intensity of the solar heat has so far abated that, though nearly all other elements may still remain entirely gaseous, yet the exceptionally refractory carbon begins to return to the liquid state. At the first stage in this return, the carbon vapor conducts itself ...

— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various

... falls of the James. Arms, ammunition, and stores were sent up the rivers in sloops. The well-to-do planters were angered when their horses and corn were taken for the expedition, but at any show of resistance they were threatened and intimidated. One of Bacon's men told John Mann, "with many fearful oaths, as God damn his blood, sink him and rot him, ...

— Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 • Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

... the Christ would reprove us, If we found him and told him our trouble? It is fearful with no one to love us, And our pain and despair growing double. It is mad'ning to feel we're excluded From the homes of the mothers that bore us; And that man, by no false arts deluded, ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... by a military court respecting those fearful papers, but they, as well as myself, were not satisfied, I for being sent for on so useless an errand, and losing my French lesson, and they because they could not discover whether I was a spy, or prove that I had circulated those papers among the fishing boats. After this ...

— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman

... taking orders had served as an officer in the army. This Fray Diego was his constant companion. The baron inspired universal terror with his gloomy character, his eccentricities, and more especially by the fearful appearance of his face. The children were quite panic-stricken in his presence. Parents and nurses used him as a bugbear to make ...

— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds

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