Meaning of FEARFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'feerful
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- [adj] experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- [adj] 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"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
- [adj] timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- [adj] lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
- [adj] extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"
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| | Synonyms: | | afraid(p), alarming, awful, bad, caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, coward(a), cowardly, cowering(a), craven, cringing(a), dastard(a), dastardly, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, faint, fainthearted, fearsome, frightening, frightful, funky, horrendous, horrific, lily-livered, poltroon, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, recreant, terrible, timid, timorous, trepid, unmanly, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied |
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| | Antonyms: | | brave, courageous, fearless | | |
| | See Also: | | ignoble | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fear"ful\, a.
1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat
all their power. --Bp.
Warburton.
2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage;
timid.
What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?
--Deut. xx. 8.
3. Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
--Shak.
4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror;
terrible; frightful; dreadful.
This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.
--Deut.
xxviii. 58.
Death is a fearful thing. --Shak.
In dreams they fearful precipices tread. --Dryden.
Syn: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible;
distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.
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