fearful

[FearĀ·ful]

If you're fearful, you're afraid of something. A kid who's fearful around dogs might cry or run away when sees even a small puppy.

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Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

Adjective S.
experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

Adjective S.
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "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"; "

Adjective S.
timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"

Adjective
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley

Adjective S.
extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"

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a.
Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

a.
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.

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Indicating, or caused by, fear.

a.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.


Fearful

Fear"ful , a. 1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power.
2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted?
3. Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
4. 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.
Syn. -- Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horible; distressing; shoking; frightful; dreadful; awful.

Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Usage Examples

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Death is a fearful thing.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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Other Usage Examples

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

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