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1. (adj.) fearful
causing or apt to cause fear; frightening:
a fearful blizzard.
2. fearful
feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude; apprehensive; anxious.
3. fearful
full of awe or reverence.
4. fearful
showing or caused by fear:
fearful behavior.
5. fearful
extreme in size, intensity, or badness:
fearful poverty.
Etymology: (1300–50)
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| Definition of 'fearful' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) fearful
experiencing or showing fear
"a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
2. (adj) awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
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"
3. (adj) cowardly, fearful
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
"cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
4. (adj) fearful, frightful
extremely distressing
"fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
5. (adj) fearful, timorous, trepid
timid by nature or revealing timidity
"timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
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1. (adjective) fearful
very worried sth bad will happen
Leaving the light on made her less fearful.; fearful of high oil prices
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) fearful
full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened
2. (adj) fearful
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid
3. (adj) fearful
indicating, or caused by, fear
4. (adj) fearful
inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful
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Sense: afraid
a fearful look.
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 Afrikaans: bang, bevrees, angstig |
 Arabic: خائِف |
 Bulgarian: страхлив |
 Brazilian: assustado |
 Czech: bázlivý |
 German: furchtsam |
 Danish: bange |
 Greek: φοβισμένος |
 Spanish: temeroso |
 Estonian: kartlik |
 Farsi: وحشت زده |
 Finnish: pelokas |
 French: craintif |
 Hebrew: מַפְחִיד |
 Hindi: डरा हुआ |
 Croatian: prestrašen |
 Hungarian: félénk |
 Indonesian: takut |
 Icelandic: óttasleginn |
 Italian: spaventoso |
 Japanese: 恐れて |
 Korean: 두려워하는 |
 Lithuanian: baimingas |
 Latvian: baiļpilns |
 Malay: takut |
 Dutch: bang |
 Norwegian: engstelig, redd |
 Polish: bojaźliwy |
 Persian: وحشت زده |
 Pashto: ډاروونكى، دارېدونكى |
 Portuguese: assustado |
 Romanian: temător |
 Russian: испуганный |
 Slovak: bojazlivý |
 Slovenian: boječ |
 Serbian: prestrašen |
 Swedish: rädd, skrämd |
 Thai: ที่น่ากลัว |
 Turkish: korkmuş |
 Taiwanese: 害怕的 |
 Ukrainian: наляканий |
 Urdu: خوفزدہ |
 Vietnamese: lo lắng và sợ hãi |
 Chinese: 害怕的 |
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