- afraid
- agitated
- anxious
- frightened
- hesitant
- jittery
- nervous
- panicky
- scared
- shy
- skittish
- tense
- timid
- uneasy
- aflutter
- aghast
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervy
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- solicitous
- spineless
- timorous
- tremulous
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
- appalling
- astounding
- atrocious
- awful
- baleful
- bloodcurdling
- creepy
- dire
- distressing
- dreadful
- eerie
- formidable
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- lurid
- macabre
- monstrous
- morbid
- overwhelming
- redoubtable
- shocking
- shuddersome
- sinister
- strange
- sublime
- terrible
- tremendous
- unearthly
- unspeakable
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WORDS RELATED TO FEARFUL
- afraid
- anxious
- aroused
- fearful
- afraid
- aghast
- antsy
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bugged
- butterflies
- careful
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- disquieted
- distressed
- disturbed
- dreading
- fearful
- fidgety
- fretful
- hacked
- hyper
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervous
- nervy
- overwrought
- restless
- scared
- shaking
- shaky
- shivery
- shook-up
- shot to pieces
- solicitous
- spooked
- strung-out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- troubled
- uneasy
- unglued
- unquiet
- uptight
- watchful
- wired
- worried sick
- wreck
- alarming
- astounding
- awful
- bad
- daunting
- dire
- disheartening
- dismaying
- dreadful
- fearful
- formidable
- frightening
- frightful
- ghastly
- grim
- grody
- gross
- harrowing
- heavy
- hideous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- intimidating
- mean
- petrifying
- scaring
- shocking
- terrible
- terrifying
- the end
- unnerving
- alarmed
- apprehensive
- fearful
- fearsome
- frightened
- panic-stricken
- panicky
- petrified
- scared
- scared stiff
- scared to death
- spooked
- terrified
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- deplorable
- depressing
- dire
- disgusting
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- grody
- gross
- gruesome
- grungy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- horrifying
- nasty
- offensive
- repulsive
- shocking
- stinking
- synthetic
- tough
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unsightly
- chicken
- craven
- faint-hearted
- fearful
- lily-livered
- pusillanimous
- spineless
- timid
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
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fearful
Awful should not be used of things which are merely disagreeable or annoying, nor of all that are alarming and terrible, but only of such as bring a solemn awe upon the soul, as in the presence of a superior power; as, the awful hush before the battle. That which is awful arouses an oppressive, that which is august an admiring reverence; we speak of the august presence of a mighty monarch, the awful presence of death. We speak of an exalted station, a grand mountain, an imposing presence, a majestic cathedral, a noble mien, a solemn litany, a stately march, an august assembly, the awful scene of the Judgment Day.
Synonyms:
alarming, appalling, august, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, frightful, grand, horrible, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, shocking, solemn, stately, terrible, terrificAntonyms:
base, beggarly, commonplace, contemptible, despicable, humble, inferior, lowly, mean, paltry, undignified, vulgar
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fearful
Synonyms:
timid, hesitating, terrible, awful, apprehensive, frightful, shocking, terrific, afraid, horrible, dreadfulAntonyms:
bold, venturesome, confident, audacious, consolatory, inspiriting, assuring, alluring, attractive, hopeful, inviting
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fearfuladjective
experiencing or showing fear
«a fearful glance»; «fearful of criticism»
Synonyms:
dread(a), frightening, dire, terrible, horrendous, fearsome, horrific, timorous, dreaded, cowardly, awful, trepid, frightful, dreadful, direfulAntonyms:
unafraid(p), good, bold, fearless, unalarming -
awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective
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»
Antonyms:
good, unafraid(p), unalarming, bold, fearless -
cowardly, fearfuladjective
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
«cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then»- P.B.Shelley
Synonyms:
dread(a), dire, terrible, horrendous, fearsome, horrific, timorous, dreaded, cowardly, awful, trepid, frightful, frightening, dreadful, direfulAntonyms:
good, unafraid(p), bold, unalarming, fearless -
fearful, frightfuladjective
extremely distressing
«fearful slum conditions»; «a frightful mistake»
Synonyms:
frightful, dread(a), fearsome, timorous, terrible, horrific, dreaded, horrible, tremendous, frightening, horrendous, awful, cowardly, horrifying, atrocious, ugly, dreadful, direful, dire, trepidAntonyms:
good, fearless, unafraid(p), bold, unalarming -
fearful, timorous, trepidadjective
timid by nature or revealing timidity
«timorous little mouse»; «in a timorous tone»; «cast fearful glances at the large dog»
Synonyms:
dread(a), frightening, dire, terrible, horrendous, fearsome, horrific, timorous, dreaded, cowardly, awful, trepid, frightful, dreadful, direfulAntonyms:
bold, good, fearless, unafraid(p), unalarming
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fearfuladjective
Synonyms:
afraid, apprehensive, haunted with fear -
fearfuladjective
Synonyms:
timid, timorous, nervous, diffident, pusillanimous, cowardly, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, white-livered, showing the white feather, easily frightened -
fearfuladjective
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terrible, dreadful, frightful, dire, direful -
fearfuladjective
Synonyms:
awful, to be reverenced
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fearfuladjective
Synonyms:
apprehensive, alarmed, afraid, frightened, timid, timorous, faint-hearted, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, meticulous, terrible, frightful, dreadful, grim, awful, dire, fell, atrocious, ghastly, terrifying, alarming, appalling
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Lakshheish M Patel:
Companies are more fearful than retail investors because retailers are making profits by selling more shares than companies in the last 2 months and so companies have sponsored business news channels anchors who advise these days retail investors not to fear and sell their shares so frenzily. Retail investors are further ready to offload their shares on Monday as they know Market is on bearish mood and char shows steep downward trend.
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Alma Powell:
I don’t want to describe the hate mail we’ve gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)
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Christina Webb McFadden:
I was very fearful because it was sent to not only me, but other households as well. I was worried it would be used as some sort of propaganda video with my daughter being front and center and not understanding what she’s saying, in the video, without the blurred faces, you can see my daughter was uncomfortable. She might not understand the context, but she knows this isn’t something nice to say.
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Marieke Witjes:
Going into Africa is still a little bit adventurous in a way, compared to, for example, Asia, which has mega-cities and plenty of shopping malls, that’s why a lot of international players are still kind of fearful about putting their money into Africa.
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Jeb Bush:
It just seems to me that maybe if you open up our doors in a fair way and unleashed the spirit of peoples’ hard work, Detroit could become in really short order, one of the great American cities again, now it would look different, it wouldn’t be Polish…But it would be just as powerful, just as exciting, just as dynamic. And that’s what immigration does and to be fearful of this, it just seems bizarre to me.
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- бая́зныBelarusian
- уплашен, страшен, ужасен, страхливBulgarian
- ängstlich, furchtbar, furchtsamGerman
- τρομερός, φοβερός, φοβισμένος, τρομακτικόςGreek
- temeroso, miedosoSpanish
- terrible, craintive, craintif, redoutable, effrayante, peureux, peureuse, effrayant, affreuse, affreuxFrench
- faitaghManx
- երկչոտArmenian
- takutIndonesian
- impaurito, spaventato, pavidoItalian
- timidus, meticulosus, pavidusLatin
- biedējošs, nobijies, biedējošaLatvian
- Com medoPortuguese
- groaznicRomanian
- страшный, пугливый, испуганный, ужасныйRussian
- korkuluTurkish
- sợ sệt, sợ, đáng sợ, sợ hãiVietnamese
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[ fˈi͡əfə͡l], [ fˈiəfəl], [ f_ˈiə_f_əl]
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adj.
• alarmed (adjective)
- more aroused,
- most aroused.
• alarmed, apprehensive (adjective)
- yellow,
- discomposed,
- phobic,
- hesitant,
- disturbed,
- lily-livered,
- intimidated,
- aflutter,
- shaky,
- disquieted,
- mousy,
- goose-bumpy,
- shrinking,
- unmanly,
- sheepish,
- jittery,
- spineless,
- chicken,
- weak-kneed,
- quivery,
- diffident,
- have cold feet,
- running scared,
- rabbity,
- agitated,
- perturbed,
- in a dither,
- solicitous,
- chickenhearted,
- tense.
• all (adjective)
- fearful.
• anxious (adjective)
- un-glued,
- more disquieted,
- more spooked,
- most dreading,
- more butterflies,
- dis-quieted,
- dis quieted,
- wreckest,
- shot pieces,
- sweating bullets,
- un-quietest,
- most hacked,
- more clutched,
- more unglued,
- over wrought,
- most clutched,
- most butterflies,
- un glued,
- more nervous,
- most bugged,
- un quietest,
- more dreading,
- dis tressed,
- more careful,
- un quiet,
- most unglued,
- un quieter,
- un-quiet,
- in state,
- most disquieted,
- in tizzy,
- more choked,
- taut,
- up tight,
- most spooked,
- most choked,
- more hyper,
- most hyper,
- un-quieter,
- worried sick,
- dis-tressed,
- more bugged,
- up-tight,
- more hacked,
- fidgety.
• appalling (adjective)
- dis heartening,
- more petrifying,
- Ender,
- most unnerving,
- un-nerving,
- dis-heartening,
- more daunting,
- most petrifying,
- more dismaying,
- most scaring,
- most daunting,
- grodiest,
- dis maying,
- most disheartening,
- more disheartening,
- un nerving,
- most dismaying,
- more scaring,
- more unnerving,
- endest,
- dis-maying,
- grodier.
• ascared (adjective)
- scared death.
• awesome (adjective)
- most stupefying,
- aweinspiring,
- awe inspiring,
- mind blowing,
- over whelming,
- impressive,
- mindblowing,
- over-whelming,
- more horrifying,
- striking,
- most horrifying,
- grandest,
- more stupefying.
• conservative (adjective)
- most undaring,
- torier,
- un changeable,
- fuddyduddy,
- most fuddyduddy,
- more fuddyduddy,
- more fogyish,
- most redneck,
- un creative,
- quietest,
- un changing,
- un-progressive,
- un imaginative,
- in-flexible,
- fuddy duddy,
- in flexible,
- un daring,
- most fuddy-duddy,
- more undaring,
- right center,
- un progressive,
- obstinate,
- most fogyish,
- un-changing,
- un-daring,
- more redneck,
- more fuddy-duddy,
- most fuddy duddy,
- un-imaginative,
- un-changeable,
- toriest,
- un-creative,
- Quieter,
- more fuddy duddy,
- fogyish,
- hidebound.
• cowardly (adjective)
- gutless,
- recreant.
• craven (adjective)
- lilylivered,
- more yellow bellied,
- more weak-kneed,
- mean spirited,
- more weakkneed,
- wimpier,
- most chicken,
- most yellow bellied,
- wimpiest,
- most weak-kneed,
- weak kneed,
- more poltroonish,
- more yellowbellied,
- most poltroonish,
- most wimpish,
- yellowbellied,
- more yellow-bellied,
- wussier,
- more chicken,
- more wimpish,
- lily livered,
- weakkneed,
- most yellow-bellied,
- yellow bellied,
- wussiest,
- most yellowbellied,
- most weak kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- more weak kneed.
• dire (adjective)
- most scowling,
- more oppressing,
- un-fortunate,
- portentous,
- most oppressing,
- more scowling,
- ruinous,
- un fortunate.
• disbelieving (adjective)
- distrustful.
• distrustful (adjective)
- dis-trustful,
- doubting,
- dis trustful.
• dreadful (adjective)
- most shuddersome,
- beastlier,
- beastliest,
- more godawful,
- most godawful,
- more shuddersome.
• eerie (adjective)
- scarier,
- un canny,
- super-natural,
- un-canny,
- un cannier,
- un-earthly,
- un earthlier,
- un canniest,
- un earthliest,
- super natural,
- un-canniest,
- un-cannier,
- crawlier,
- un earthly,
- crawliest,
- un-earthlier,
- un-earthliest,
- ghostly.
• fainthearted (adjective)
- un assertive,
- more unassertive,
- having cold feet,
- most cowed,
- more cowed,
- most cowering,
- most unassertive,
- un-assertive,
- co-wed,
- co wed,
- more cowering.
• frightened (adjective)
- paralyzed,
- rattled,
- jellyfish,
- pushing the panic button,
- horrified,
- scared stiff,
- terror-stricken,
- having kittens,
- Harrowed,
- Chicken-hearted,
- in a cold sweat,
- startled,
- in a panic,
- unnerved,
- chicken-livered,
- in a sweat.
• frightening (adjective)
- nightmarish.
• frightful/frightening (adjective)
- more traumatic,
- hairraising,
- most traumatic,
- in conceivable,
- dis-quieting,
- in-conceivable,
- more grabber,
- most grabber,
- dis quieting,
- grisly,
- hair raising.
• gruesome (adjective)
- spine tingling,
- spinetingling.
• horrendous (adjective)
- more horrifyin,
- most horrifyin.
• horrible (adjective)
- more sickie,
- fairiest,
- most sickie,
- fairier.
• horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
- un-holier,
- un godlier,
- un-godly,
- un kind,
- un godliest,
- un holiest,
- un-holiest,
- dis agreeable,
- dis-agreeable,
- un godly,
- un holier,
- un-kind,
- un holy,
- un-godlier,
- un-godliest,
- de testable,
- un-kindest,
- un kinder,
- un-holy,
- un kindest,
- de-testable,
- un-kinder,
- unholy.
• horrid (adjective)
- louer,
- louest.
• horrifying (adjective)
- monstrous,
- ghoulish,
- sublime,
- hideous,
- morbid,
- overwhelming,
- hair-raising,
- baleful,
- unearthly,
- strange,
- bloodcurdling,
- grievous,
- astounding,
- macabre,
- creepy,
- sinister,
- lurid.
• humble (adjective)
- supplicatory,
- reverential,
- unpretentious,
- unambitious,
- self-conscious.
• incommunicable (adjective)
- more description,
- in-communicable,
- most description,
- in communicable.
• indefinable (adjective)
- in definable,
- in-definable.
• inexpressible (adjective)
- in expressible,
- in-expressible.
• irresolute (adjective)
- in firm,
- wishy-washy,
- Half-hearted,
- on-the-fence,
- hot-and-cold,
- hot and cold.
• mistrustful (adjective)
- mis-trustful,
- mistrustful,
- mis trustful.
• ominous (adjective)
- un lucky,
- ill fated,
- un propitious,
- un-friendly,
- most unpromising,
- in auspicious,
- in-auspicious,
- most premonitory,
- most malificent,
- Ill-boding,
- more malefic,
- un friendlier,
- un luckiest,
- most doomful,
- un promising,
- un friendliest,
- most presaging,
- more premonitory,
- illboding,
- un luckier,
- un-luckier,
- pre monitory,
- more malificent,
- in hospitable,
- most malefic,
- more doomful,
- un-luckiest,
- pre cursive,
- illfated,
- un-promising,
- more unpromising,
- pre-cursive,
- in-hospitable,
- most precursive,
- un-friendlier,
- inauspicious,
- pre-monitory,
- un-friendliest,
- more precursive,
- un-lucky,
- ill boding,
- more presaging.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- die hard,
- Lou,
- malefic,
- anxious,
- skittish,
- white bread,
- the end,
- old line,
- forceless,
- great big,
- mondo,
- undaring,
- frightened,
- horrific,
- untrusting,
- anguished,
- redoubtable,
- godawful,
- shuddersome,
- meanspirited,
- traditionalist,
- unpromising,
- traditionalistic,
- aspen,
- Alarmable,
- zero cool,
- in turmoil,
- grody,
- amoebalike,
- in a rut,
- timid,
- appalling,
- uneffusive,
- in rut,
- not extreme,
- Pithless,
- extra ordinary,
- superstitious,
- unsocial,
- ominous,
- horrid,
- in a tizzy,
- unassured,
- Poltroonish,
- panicky,
- traumatic,
- right of center,
- conservative,
- palpitant,
- unglued,
- ascared,
- real gone,
- Precursive,
- petrified,
- panic-stricken,
- over-wrought,
- worried,
- premonitory,
- been hit before,
- awful,
- gruesome,
- Crawly,
- something else,
- tremendous,
- shot to pieces,
- holding to,
- rightwing,
- wimpish,
- shocking,
- distressing,
- craven,
- dire,
- weird,
- nerveless,
- malificent,
- irresolute,
- on the qui vive,
- Butterflies,
- tremulous,
- wussy,
- sickie,
- defying description,
- rightist,
- shy,
- uneager,
- scared to death,
- faint-hearted,
- in a state,
- wrecker,
- all nerves,
- Agitable,
- volative,
- up set,
- wimpy,
- terrible,
- in suspense,
- terrific,
- hyper,
- dreadful,
- Doomful,
- unassertive,
- strung out,
- Hacked,
- fainthearted,
- horrible,
- yellow-bellied,
- be set,
- grabber,
- horrifyin,
- formidable.
• panic-stricken (adjective)
- panic stricken,
- panicstricken.
• panicky (adjective)
- more rattled,
- dis heartened,
- most rattled,
- in awe,
- more disheartened,
- dis-heartened,
- run scared,
- most disheartened.
• petrified (adjective)
- most immobilized,
- speechless,
- more immobilized.
• recreant (adjective)
- falsehearted,
- pigeonhearted.
• redoubtable (adjective)
- re doubtable,
- re-doubtable.
• scared (adjective)
- more panicked,
- most panicked.
• shocking (adjective)
- dis graceful,
- dis-graceful.
• shy (adjective)
- un willing,
- un-effusive,
- in disposed,
- un-willing,
- introvert,
- un assured,
- most introvert,
- un-responsive,
- dis inclined,
- dis-inclined,
- un-eager,
- more unassured,
- most uneffusive,
- in-disposed,
- un social,
- more uneager,
- more unsocial,
- un-social,
- most unassured,
- most uneager,
- un responsive,
- more uneffusive,
- recessive,
- most unsocial,
- un effusive,
- un eager,
- more introvert,
- un-assured.
• skittish (adjective)
- un dependable,
- un reliable,
- un-reliable,
- most agitable,
- more alarmable,
- more volative,
- more agitable,
- ex citable,
- most volative,
- most alarmable,
- ex-citable,
- ex-cited,
- un-dependable,
- ex cited.
• spineless (adjective)
- most faint hearted,
- more amoebalike,
- invertebrate,
- in effective,
- most forceless,
- weak-willed,
- more forceless,
- more invertebrate,
- weakwilled,
- more pithless,
- most pithless,
- most invertebrate,
- in-vertebrate,
- in vertebrate,
- in-adequate,
- in-effectual,
- more faint hearted,
- weak willed,
- in effectual,
- in adequate,
- faint hearted,
- in-effective,
- most amoebalike,
- most faint-hearted,
- more faint-hearted.
• terrible (adjective)
- most dreaded,
- in convenient,
- un-welcome,
- inconvenient,
- more dreaded,
- in-convenient,
- unwelcome,
- un welcome.
• terrific (adjective)
- up setting,
- more agitating,
- more terrorizing,
- up-setting,
- most terrorizing,
- most agitating.
• timid (adjective)
- most daunted,
- more browbeaten,
- more trembling,
- most bullied,
- most trembling,
- more daunted,
- more bullied,
- most badgered,
- more milquetoast,
- more badgered,
- most browbeaten,
- most milquetoast.
• tremendous (adjective)
- most cracking,
- most humongous,
- more mondo,
- most mondo,
- more humongous,
- in-credible,
- more whopper,
- whaler,
- in credible,
- blimpest,
- blimper,
- whalest,
- more cracking,
- extra-ordinary,
- most whopper.
• tremulous (adjective)
- most palpitating,
- more aspen,
- more palpitating,
- most quavering,
- most aspen,
- more quavering.
• troubled (adjective)
- most ruffled,
- more riled,
- be-set,
- more harrowed,
- most exacerbated,
- most pestered,
- dis concerted,
- dis pleased,
- most tortured,
- more ruffled,
- miffed,
- most chagrined,
- dis-pleased,
- most harrowed,
- more exacerbated,
- more chagrined,
- more tortured,
- most beset,
- most plagued,
- more pestered,
- most riled,
- most inconvenienced,
- ex acerbated,
- troubled,
- more inconvenienced,
- more irked,
- more mortified,
- most aggravated,
- more beset,
- ex-acerbated,
- more aggravated,
- more plagued,
- most irked,
- dis-concerted,
- most mortified.
• undescribable (adjective)
- un describable,
- un-describable.
• uneasy (adjective)
- un easier,
- in securest,
- more palpitant,
- up-set,
- most harassed,
- most anguished,
- most tormented,
- dis-composed,
- most palpitant,
- more vexed,
- most discomposed,
- dis composed,
- pre carious,
- on qui vive,
- un easy,
- most vexed,
- more tormented,
- more harassed,
- un-easiest,
- more discomposed,
- un-easier,
- un-easy,
- un easiest,
- in secure,
- more anguished,
- ill ease,
- in-securest,
- pre-carious,
- harassed,
- in-securer,
- in-secure,
- in securer.
• unmanly (adjective)
- un-manliest,
- un manlier,
- un manliest,
- un-manly,
- un-manlier,
- un manly.
• unspeakable (adjective)
- undescribable,
- indefinable,
- inexpressible,
- beyond words,
- Incommunicable,
- unutterable.
• untrusting (adjective)
- un trusting,
- un-trusting.
• unutterable (adjective)
- un utterable,
- un-utterable.
• weird (adjective)
- un-couth,
- un-natural,
- magical,
- un couth,
- in-scrutable,
- farout,
- in scrutable.
• wicked (adjective)
- wicked.
• worried (adjective)
- on pins needles,
- on pins and needles,
- worried stiff.
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n.
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- (with) your heart in your mouth.
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- menacing,
- awesome,
- chilling,
- spooky,
- fear,
- eerie.
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- thorough,
- utterly,
- unspeakable,
- downright,
- utter,
- sadly,
- sorry,
- such as it is,
- hopelessly.
• caitiff (noun)
- caitiff.
• cowering (noun)
- cowering.
• dastard (noun)
- dastard.
• dastardly (noun)
- dastardly.
• faint (noun)
- faint.
• fearful (noun)
- poor-spirited,
- bad,
- cringing,
- white-livered,
- poltroon,
- funky.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- pusillanimous,
- apprehensive,
- dreaded,
- frightful,
- jumpy,
- horrendous,
- trepid,
- alarming,
- fell,
- atrocious,
- dread,
- scared,
- fearsome,
- meticulous,
- nervous,
- cowardly,
- coward,
- grim,
- timorous,
- alarmed,
- direful,
- terrified,
- frightening,
- afraid,
- terrifying,
- horrifying,
- ghastly.
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Other synonyms:
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- uneasy,
- fearfully,
- claustrophobic,
- scary,
- traumatized,
- afeard,
- shaken,
- gun-shy,
- shitless,
- chary,
- tame,
- overawed,
- supine.
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- nervy,
- aghast,
- fierce.
How to use «Fearful» in context?
One fear that we all have is the fear of the dark. The dark can be cozy and reassuring or it can be scarily and ominous. We all have different reactions to darkness; some people love it, some people hate it, and some people are fearful of it. One thing that is clear is that everyone’s reaction to darkness is individual.
Fears can be constructive in that they can guide our behavior through caution, but when they are unreasonable or excessive, they can be harmful. The fear of the dark can keep some people from going outside and enjoying the night sky, and it can keep others from sleeping.
Paraphrases for Fearful:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
afraid, apprehensive, scared.
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Independent
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Adjective
alarmed, anxious, appalling, awful, concerned, creepy, daunting, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, fragile, frightening, frightful, god-awful, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, shy, terrible, timid, troubled, uneasy, wary.
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Other Related
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frightened, scary, terrifying, worried.
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Homophones for Fearful:
- foreplay, frivol away, favorably, fearfully, favourable, favourably, furbelow, four-ply, farfalle, fair ball, free people, fairy bell, favorable, fire opal, firefly, free fall, fireball, fire bell, frivol, froebel, friable.
Варианты (v1)
Варианты (v2)
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fearful [ˈfɪəfʊl] прил
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страшный, ужасный, жуткий
(terrible)
- fearful vengeance – страшная месть
- fearful sights – ужасные явления
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робкий, пугливый, боязливый
(timid)
- fearful thought – пугливая мысль
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испуганный
(frightened)
- fearful glance – испуганный взгляд
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полный страха
(full of fear)
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fearful [ˈfɪəfʊl] прич
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напуганный
(frightened)
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пугающий
(scary)
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боящийся, опасающийся
(afraid)
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испытывающий страх
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| adjective | ||
| страшный | terrible, fearful, horrible, frightful, frightening, dire | |
| ужасный | terrible, horrible, awful, appalling, dreadful, fearful | |
| напуганный | funky, frightened, fearful, afraid, pop-eyed | |
| испуганный | frightened, afraid, scared, startled, fearful, panicked | |
| пугливый | fearful, shy, skittish, timid, jittery, scary | |
| пугающий | frightening, scaring, fearful | |
| робкий | timid, shy, fearful, sheepish, gingerly, bashful | |
| полный страха | fearful, apprehensive | |
| огромный | huge, enormous, great, vast, immense, fearful | |
| исполненный благоговения | fearful |
Предложения со словом «fearful»
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I was concerned that they were picking up so much polarizing misinformation, and they were growing really fearful of a Trump presidency. |
Я была обеспокоена, что они набирались таким большим количеством противоречивой дезинформации, и росли действительно напуганными президенством Трампа. |
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When we have too much of the I and too little of the we, we can find ourselves vulnerable, fearful and alone. |
Когда у нас слишком много «я» и слишком мало «мы», мы становимся уязвимыми, мы испытываем страх и одиночество. |
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And when people say to me, There’s a backlash against refugees, what I say to them is, No, there’s a polarization, and at the moment, those who are fearful are making more noise than those who are proud. |
И когда люди говорят мне: «Но ведь многие против беженцев», я им на это отвечаю: «Нет, это разделение мнений, и на данном этапе те, кому страшно, шумят сильнее, чем те, кто гордится». |
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It’s a marvelous story, but actually, it’s about a young man fearful that he won’t be able to make it as a powerful figure in a male world unless he takes revenge for his father’s murder. |
Это изумительная история, но она о юноше, боящемся того, что он не сможет стать значимой фигурой в мире мужчин, пока не отомстит за убийство отца. |
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It says that girls should be fearful and boys should be gutsy. |
Они сообщали, что девочки должны бояться, а мальчикам необходимо быть храбрыми. |
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Would my son’s really relaxed and carefree nature become fearful and withdrawn? |
Стал бы мой спокойный и беззаботный сын пугливым и замкнутым? |
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Were you fearful or fearsome ? |
Была испугана или боялись тебя? |
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When I feel powerful, I feel confident, not fearful , I expand my own range. |
Когда я чувствую, что имею преимущество, я чувствую уверенность в себе, не страх, я расширяю свою зону. |
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We ought to accept it solemnly as a fearful necessity. |
Надо принимать серьезно зту страшную необходимость |
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A fearful array of flails and barbs burst into action. |
Сонмы шипастых и пузырчатых водорослей опять вступили в бой. |
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There are many fearful men hiding from my wrath tonight. |
Много напуганных людей прячутся от моего гнева сегодня вечером. |
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An ignorant teacher teaches ignorance, a fearful teacher teaches fear, a bored teacher teaches boredom. |
Невежественный учитель преподает невежество, робкий учитель преподает страх, скучающий учитель преподает скуку. |
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She touches a real boy and turns him into something awful and fearful . |
Она прикоснулась к настоящему мальчику и превратила его в нечто страшное и опасное? |
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Miniver’s eyes stared at the wound in my throat as if it was something wondrous, and fearful . |
Минивер смотрела на рану у меня на горле как на чудесное и страшное зрелище. |
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The shouts of the children, the shrieks and hoots of the daemons, filled the little gymnasium and soon banished fearful thoughts. |
Крики детей, вопли и визг альмов сотрясали стены зальчика и гнали все страшные мысли прочь. |
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But Just then the boy began to suffer such fearful pains that he became alarmed. |
Но как раз в это мгновение мальчик почувствовал в животе страшную боль. |
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There was a fearful scream which almost froze our hearts to hear. |
Послышался страшный стон, от которого у нас замерло сердце. |
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In the great hall I could hear the fearful noise of unnatural carnage, the screams of the men, the screams of the tarns, the hiss of arrows. the wild blows of wings and talons. |
Я слышал вопли стражников, шум крыльев тарнов, свист стрел, сильные удары крыльями и клювами. |
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The Order, always fearful of insurrection, tortures confessions from those they wrongly arrest. |
Орден, вечно боящийся мятежа, пытками выбивает признание из арестованных по ложному обвинению. |
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It was the most fearful , violent blow I have ever struck. |
Никогда прежде я не наносил столь трусливого и яростного удара. |
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He leaned closer to the window, glanced around the parking lot, suddenly more fearful . |
Он наклонился к окошку машины, потом окинул испуганным взглядом стоянку. |
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They had called him a coward for that, and deemed him fearful of pain. |
За тот поступок ему навесили ярлык труса и сочли неженкой, боящимся боли. |
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It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half fearful , with which I am preparing to depart. |
Невозможно выразить трепетное чувство, радостное и вместе тревожное, с каким я готовлюсь в путь. |
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Ista considered the empty spaces of that solitude, its fearful cost. |
Иста задумалась над пустотой одиночества, над его страшной ценой. |
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The Tower of London is about half a mile south of Whitechapel, and the subway was sufficiently unpleasant that it is unlikely many people or police used it to cross the river, especially if one were claustrophobic or fearful of traveling through a dirty, gloomy tube under water. |
Многие предпочитали пересекать реку на лодках, чем идти по грязной, темной трубе под водой. |
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They cling to the outside of my office in their fearful way, desperately avoiding the attacks of all other factions. |
Они держатся недалеко от моего офиса отчаянно пытаясь избежать столкновений с остальными. |
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Ashamed of that, and fearful of the shame of having word of their failure spread. |
Стыдились и боялись, что кто — нибудь узнает об их оплошности. |
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They will never be shy or fearful without reason. |
Они никогда не будут стесняться или бояться чего — либо без причины. |
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Along with the poverty that is affecting millions of human beings, another fearful danger is that of terrorism. |
Наряду с нищетой, от которой страдают миллионы людей, терроризм также представляет собой исключительно серьезную опасность. |
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It is this danger of a slide into the abyss that the mission is most fearful about. |
Членов миссии больше всего беспокоит угроза сползания в эту пропасть. |
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After his liver transplant, he became an organ donation promoter and worked as a volunteer at a hospital, helping fearful patients. |
После пересадки печени он стал пропагандировать донорство органов и трудился в качестве добровольца в больнице, чтобы помогать пациентам, испытывающим страх. |
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Parmitano, he says, “had every right to be fearful for his life.” |
Пармитано, добавляет он, «имел полное право опасаться за свою жизнь». |
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They’re both low in appeal (no one wants to feel angry or fearful ) but have high levels of engagement. |
Обе имеют низкую привлекательность (никто не хочет испытывать гнев или страх), но обладают высоким уровнем вовлеченности. |
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Or will Ukrainians remain forever fearful slaves? |
Или украинцы навсегда останутся пугливыми рабами? |
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When they point right back, the horse is fearful or angry, depending upon what’s going on in front of him, around him. |
Если они направлены назад, значит, лошадь боится или злится, в зависимости от того, что происходит вокруг неё. |
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The annexation of Crimea and the more recent conflict in other parts of Ukraine have made Georgians more fearful than before: Could they be next? |
Аннексия Крыма и конфликт в других областях Украины вызывает у грузин новые страхи: а вдруг они следующие? |
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But the mainstream reaction has been much more fearful : media and politicians throughout the European Union are obsessing about the threat of waves of migrants reaching their borders. |
Но основная реакция была гораздо более испуганной: СМИ и политики во всех странах Европейского Союза обеспокоены угрозой волны мигрантов, которые достигают их границ. |
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Our allies in Israel and the Gulf are fearful at a time when some of the most dangerous forces in the region are emboldened. |
Наши союзники в Израиле и в Персидском заливе напуганы , в то время, как в регионе набирают мощь наиболее опасные силы. |
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Political reform has been a major source of tension in Hong Kong, with China party leaders fearful of calls for democracy spreading to other cities. |
Политическая реформа — это главный источник напряженности в Гонконге, так как китайские партийные лидеры боятся, что призыв к демократии распространится на другие города. |
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Georgia was defeated, Ukraine was fearful , the Eastern Europeans were nervous, and the United States and Western Europeans argued over what to do. |
Грузия была разбита, Украину охватил страх, Восточная Европа занервничала, а Америка и Западная Европа спорили: что теперь делать. |
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It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look, and look a little longer, and maybe even understand. |
Поэзия преобразовывает незнакомую и пугающую вещь в нечто, что можно оглядеть, потом еще раз оглядеть, а потом, возможно, понять и принять. |
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If all other doctors in the state are forced to stop performing abortions, that doctor, fearful for his safety, would stop carrying out the procedure, the group said. |
Если все остальные врачи в штате будут вынуждены перестать выполнять эту процедуру, этот врач, боясь за свою безопасность, перестал бы выполнять эту процедуру, сообщила группа. |
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For all of them, until now hopelessly estranged in a bewildered opposition, are fearful . |
Ведь все они, до сих пор безнадежно разобщенные в растерянной оппозиции, испытывают страх. |
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“If someone decides to become a pilot, he cannot be fearful ,” the president told him, according to the Polish newspaper Dziennik. |
«Если вы решили стать пилотом, то вы не имеете права бояться, — сказал он, если верить польской газете Dziennik. |
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It’s their fearful bosses who rob us of our best hope for inspiring a future generation of engineers, scientists, and explorers. |
В этом виновато их пугливое начальство, лишающее нас надежды на пробуждение нового поколения инженеров, ученых и космических путешественников. |
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For Latin American pragmatists, always fearful of Cuban fifth columnists, it offers a way to square the circle: encouraging change in Cuba without going too far. |
Для латиноамериканских прагматиков, постоянно опасающихся кубинской «пятой колонны», это является поводом для замыкания круга: способствовать изменениям на Кубе, не заходя слишком далеко. |
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But it was also made more probable by Germany’s fearful response to Russia’s rising power, as well as myriad other factors, including human errors. |
Но она также стала более вероятной из — за боязливой реакции Германии на возраставшую мощь России, а также из — за множества других факторов, в том числе человеческих ошибок. |
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At the last minute, one key service provider backed out, fearful that it would incur Slavik’s wrath. |
В последнюю минуту один ключевой интернет — провайдер отказался участвовать, опасаясь, что это может вызвать гнев Славика. |
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It was rage at foreign power, Russian and Western, wielded over a weakened China, and fearful rumors of Christian atrocities, that drove the next round of killing. |
Причиной следующей волны убийств стала ненависть к тому давлению, которое Россия и Запад оказывали на ослабевший Китай, а также пугающие слухи о зверствах христиан. |
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He thought of him kindly; but his thoughts were disquieted and fearful . |
Он думал о нем доброжелательно, но в его мыслях были смятение и страх. |
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I kept my arms around her, doing what I could to calm her in that fearful bedlam. |
Я не размыкал объятий и пытался как мог успокоить ее среди этой кошмарной сумятицы. |
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His expression was pleading rather than ferocious, nor did he bare his great tusks or utter his fearful guttural warnings. |
Выражение его морды казалось мне скорее просительным, чем свирепым, он не обнажал своих больших клыков и не издавал своих ужасных гортанных окриков. |
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But, now that she thought about it, they weren’t quite enough. Now that she thought about it, they hadn’t made her particularly happy, though they made her less harried, less fearful of the morrow. |
Но вот сейчас, думая об этом, она почувствовала, что не стала счастливее, хотя, конечно, жилось ей спокойнее, она меньше боялась завтрашнего дня. |
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Certain. I saw the soldier’s shape and the top of his musket; that made me draw in my head so quickly, for I was fearful he might also see me. |
Я видел кивер солдата и кончик его ружья; я потому и отдернул голову, чтобы он меня не заметил. |
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But when you tell me you are scared, my leaning post is gone and I am fearful of falling. |
Но когда ты говоришь мне, что боишься, моя опора исчезает, и я боюсь упасть. |
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He speaks wildly to his neighbour, he makes his wife fearful . |
Он странно разговаривает с соседом, он сильно пугает жену. |
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Kate left the meeting frustrated and deeply fearful for her country. |
Раздраженная Кейт покинула совещание, сильно обеспокоенная за судьбу страны. |
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I knew that a thousand fearful accidents might occur, the slightest of which would disclose a tale to thrill all connected with me with horror. |
Я знал, что возможна тысяча несчастных случайностей и самая ничтожная из них может раскрыть тайну, которая заставит трепетать от ужаса всех, кто со мной связан. |
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The birth, the agony, the hideous agonies, that last moment…then the nursing, the sleepless nights, the fearful pains…. |
Роды, страдания, безобразные страдания, эта последняя минута… потом кормление, эти бессонные ночи, эти боли страшные… |
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She was suddenly fearful of what they would find inside. |
Ей было заранее страшно от того, что она может увидеть под гробовой доской. |
1 afraid, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, diffident, faint-hearted, frightened, hellacious (U.S. slang) hesitant, intimidated, jittery (informal) jumpy, nervous, nervy (Brit. informal) neurotic, panicky, pusillanimous, scared, shrinking, tense, timid, timorous, uneasy, wired (slang)
2 appalling, atrocious, awful, dire, distressing, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grievous, grim, gruesome, hair-raising, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, monstrous, shocking, terrible, unspeakable
Antonyms
1 ballsy (taboo slang) bold, brave, confident, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, gallant, game (informal) gutsy (slang) heroic, indomitable, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, unabashed, unafraid, undaunted, unflinching, valiant, valorous
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
fearful
1 adj If you are fearfulof something, you are afraid of it.
FORMAL usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ of n, ADJ that
Bankers were fearful of a world banking crisis…, I had often been very fearful, very angry, and very isolated.
2 adj You use fearful to emphasize how serious or bad a situation is.
FORMAL ADJ n (emphasis)
(=dreadful)
…the fearful consequences which might flow from unilateral military moves.
3 adj Fearful is used to emphasize that something is very bad.
INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED ADJ n (emphasis)
You gave me a fearful shock!
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