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Fearful   /fˈɪrfəl/   Listen
Fearful

adjective
1.
Experiencing or showing fear.  "Fearful of criticism"
2.
Causing fear or dread or terror.  Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible.  "An awful risk" , "Dire news" , "A career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" , "The dread presence of the headmaster" , "Polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" , "A dreadful storm" , "A fearful howling" , "Horrendous explosions shook the city" , "A terrible curse"
3.
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted.  Synonym: cowardly.  Antonym: brave.
4.
Extremely distressing.  Synonym: frightful.  "A frightful mistake"
5.
Timid by nature or revealing timidity.  Synonyms: timorous, trepid.  "In a timorous tone" , "Cast fearful glances at the large dog"



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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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