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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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Etymology of 'Fearful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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