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adj. Causing or capable of causing fear; frightening: a fearful howling.

adj. Experiencing fear; frightened. See Synonyms at afraid.

adj. Feeling or inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous.

adj. Indicating anxiety, fear, or terror: a fearful, nervous glance.

adj. Feeling reverence, dread, or awe.

adj. Extreme, as in degree or extent; dreadful: a fearful blunder; fearful poverty.

adj. Frightening.

adj. Frightened, filled with terror.

adj. Terrible.

adj. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

adj. Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.

adj. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

adj. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.

Feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude; afraid.

Timid; timorous; wanting courage.

Causing or such as to cause fear; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful; terrible; awful.

Showing fear; produced by fear; indicative of fear.

Synonyms Pusillanimous, cowardly, faint-hearted. Dreadful. Frightful, etc. (see awful); dire, direful, horrible, distressing, shocking.

adj. extremely distressing

adj. lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

adj. causing fear or dread or terror

adj. experiencing or showing fear

adj. timid by nature or revealing timidity

"I. iii.176 (130,9) [left in the fearful guard] [W: fearless] Dr. Warburton has forgotten that _fearful_ is not only that which fears, but that which is feared or causes fear."

bad    faint-hearted    faint    poor-spirited    funky    recreant    unmanly    yellow    poltroon    timid   

distressing    afraid    frightful    shocking    horrible    apprehensive    timorous    awful    dreadful    timid   

cheerful    tearful   

terrible    horrid    extraordinary    terrific    angry    silent