Fearful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fearful \Fear"ful\ (f[=e]r"f[.u]l), a.
     1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
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              Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst
              all their power.                      --Bp.


                                                    Warburton.
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     2. Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage;
        timid.
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              What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?
                                                    --Deut. xx. 8.
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     3. Indicating, or caused by, fear.
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              Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
                                                    --Shak.
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     4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror;
        terrible; frightful; dreadful.
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              This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.
                                                    --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 58.
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              Death is a fearful thing.             --Shak.
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              In dreams they fearful precipices tread. --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible;
          distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fearful
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded},
               {dreadful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous},
              {horrific}, {terrible}]
       2: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly
          dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: {cowardly}]
          [ant: {brave}]
       3: extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a
          frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst" [syn: {frightful},
           {terrible}]
       4: timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little
          mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the
          large dog" [syn: {timorous}, {trepid}]
       5: experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful
          of criticism"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  163 Moby Thesaurus words for "fearful":
     aflutter, afraid, aghast, agitated, alarmed, alarming, all nerves,
     all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, appalling, apprehensive,
     atrocious, awful, awing, baleful, bashful, bothered, chicken,
     chickenhearted, chilling, concerned, coward, cowardly, cowed,
     daunted, daunting, deadly, deterrent, deterring, diffident, dire,
     direful, discomposed, disconcerting, discouraging, disgusting,
     disheartening, dismayed, dismaying, disquieted, disquieting,
     disturbed, dreadful, edgy, excitable, fainthearted, fear-inspiring,
     fearing, fearsome, foreboding, formidable, frightened, frightening,
     frightful, funking, funky, ghastly, goosy, grim, grisly, gruesome,
     heinous, henhearted, hesitant, hideous, high-strung, horrendous,
     horrible, horrific, horrifying, howling, in a pucker, in a stew,
     in fear, intimidated, irritable, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered,
     loathsome, lurid, macabre, malign, milk-livered, milksoppish,
     milksoppy, misgiving, monstrous, mousy, nauseating, nauseous,
     nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, on tenterhooks,
     overanxious, overapprehensive, overawing, overstrung, overtimid,
     overtimorous, overwhelming, panic-prone, panic-stricken, panicky,
     perturbed, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, rabbity, redoubtable,
     repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rousing, scared, scaring, scary,
     shaky, shivery, shocking, shrinking, shy, sinister, sissified,
     sissy, skittery, skittish, soft, solicitous, startling, startlish,
     strained, sublime, suspenseful, tense, terrible, terrific,
     terrified, terrifying, terror-stricken, thumping, timid, timorous,
     trembling, tremendous, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy,
     troubled, uneasy, unmanly, unmanned, unspeakable, unwilling, weak,
     weak-kneed, weakhearted, whacking, white-livered, yellow,
     zealous