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fearful
[ feer-fuhl ]
adjective
- causing or apt to cause fear; frightening:
a fearful apparition.
- feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude:
fearful for his life.
Synonyms: worried, concerned, anxious, solicitous, distrustful, uneasy, apprehensive, timorous, timid, afraid
- full of awe or reverence:
fearful of the Lord.
- showing or caused by fear:
fearful behavior exhibited by dogs in the animal shelter.
- extreme in size, intensity, or badness: fearful poverty.
a fearful head cold;
fearful poverty.
fearful
/ ˈfɪəfʊl /
adjective
- having fear; afraid
- causing fear; frightening
- informal.very unpleasant or annoying
a fearful cold
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Derived Forms
- ˈfearfulness, noun
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Other Words From
- fear·ful·ly adverb
- fear·ful·ness noun
- un·fear·ful adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.
The grand jury decision “makes us a little bit more fearful to leave our homes every day,” Cook told me.
This past election, they were hardly mentioned by Republicans fearful of alienating moderates.
Oddly, though, Americans are not fearful enough when it comes to real threats.
At first, the doctors write, the villagers were “fearful and agitated,” lacking the basic necessities needed to survive.
And it is too true that ages of subjugation have demoralized, to a fearful extent, the Italian People.
His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.
A bull-fight is fearful enough, but it cannot compare with the struggle between a maddened buffalo and his pursuer.
The boy often wonders if there is another animal in the world with such fearful horns.
So with a fearful growl, and a bark that might have frightened a lion, Bravo made a leap and a spring after poor little Downy.
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