fearful
(adjective) experiencing or showing fear; “a fearful glance”; “fearful of criticism”
awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
(adjective) 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”
fearful, timorous, trepid
(adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity; “timorous little mouse”; “in a timorous tone”; “cast fearful glances at the large dog”
cowardly, fearful
(adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; “cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then”- P.B.Shelley
fearful, frightful
(adjective) extremely distressing; “fearful slum conditions”; “a frightful mistake”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fearful (comparative fearfuller or fearfuler or more fearful, superlative most fearful)
Frightening.
Tending to fear; timid.
(dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
(now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.
• (frightened): frightened, timid, timorous
• See also afraid and cowardly
fearful (comparative more fearful, superlative most fearful)
(dialect) Extremely; fearfully.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fear"ful, a.
1. Full of fera, 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 fain-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; ho
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
