'Fearful' definitions:
Definition of 'fearful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
adjective
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous]
adjective
Extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" [syn: fearful, frightful]
adjective
Definition of 'Fearful'
From: GCIDE
- Fearful \Fear"ful\ (f[=e]r"f[.u]l), a.
- 1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. [1913 Webster]
- Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. [1913 Webster]
- What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? --Deut. xx. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. [1913 Webster]
- Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. [1913 Webster]
- This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. --Deut. xxviii. 58. [1913 Webster]
- Death is a fearful thing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In dreams they fearful precipices tread. --Dryden.
- Syn: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible; distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fearful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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