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adjective

Fearful adj.

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. "Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst all their power."

Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. "What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?"

Indicating, or caused by, fear. "Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh."

Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. "This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God." "Death is a fearful thing." "In dreams they fearful precipices tread."

Synonyms: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible; distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.

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... Portugueze bound for Brazil, and two or three Sloops for Jamaica, in one of which Fern endeavouring to go off, was killed by Phillips, as was also another man for the like attempt, which made all the others more fearful of discovering their Minds, dreading the villany of a few hardened wretches, who feared neither God nor Devil, as Phillips was often used ...

— Pirates • Anonymous

... grizzly, being naturally a very quiet and retiring creature, keeping itself aloof from mankind, and never venturing near his habitations except when excited by the pangs of fierce hunger. When pursued or cornered it becomes a dangerous antagonist; and its furious rage often results in fearful catastrophes to both man and beast. Nothing but a rifle ball in the right spot will [Page 170] check the creature, when wrought up to this pitch of fury, and an additional wound only serves to increase its terrible ferocity. Bear-chasing is ...

— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and cut by stones; who limped and shivered, and glared ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... will expect miracles of attention, justice, and temper, which the rough-hewed ways of men do not admit of; and they will repine and tease the life out of those in authority. Sometimes both superiors and inferiors, governors and governed, have this fault. This must often happen in a family, and is a fearful punishment to the elders of it. Scarcely any goodness of disposition, and what are called great qualities, can make such ...

— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps

... way home Marguerite told her brother how Charlie was to come and see her on Wednesday, and they arranged that Hirzel should stop about the house so fearful of ...

— Legend of Moulin Huet • Lizzie A. Freeth

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