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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.
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



... whether from choice, or influenced by the suction of the current, made towards the cut intended to supply the convent mills, and entered it half swimming half wading, and pitching the unlucky monk to and fro in the saddle at a fearful rate. ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott

... knew, was a mere effect of light and shadow and tragically heightened fancy: when he moved in a certain direction, the dim picture faded, broke into pieces, was gone; but lean far back in the settle, look out with eyes of one awakened from a maze of fearful dreams, and there it was again! He had no terror of it; what was it at last but the projection of a face and form with which his mind had long—had long been occupied? It had ousted the vision of his father; and that, too, was not strange, seeing that, day by day, the thought ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... her shoulder, as though fearful of being overheard, and then, drawing her chair nearer, and raising a tiny ivory fan to her lips, breathed behind it: "By the Count himself—my poor, mad, foolish Olenski; who asks only to take her back on her ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton

... rejoined Westwood—"such wrong as can never be repaired. Your fearful prophecies and denunciations so terrified my daughter, that she died distracted. My brokenhearted wife was not long in following her; and now you have made me the murderer of my son. Complete the ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... shuffling savates, relating or drinking in the wonderful and the intimate. One of his masterpieces represents three of these dames, lighted by a guttering candle, holding their heads together to discuss the fearful earthquake at Bordeaux, the consequence of the government's allowing the surface of the globe to be unduly dug out in California. The representation of confidential imbecility could not go further. When a man leaves out so ...
— Picture and Text - 1893 • Henry James


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