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fearful 音标拼音: [f'ɪrfəl] a. 可怕的,害怕的,担心的,非常的 可怕的,害怕的,担心的,非常的 fearful adj 1: experiencing or showing fear; " a fearful glance"; " fearful of criticism" 2: 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" [ synonym: { awful}, { dire}, { direful}, { dread( a)}, { dreaded}, { dreadful}, { fearful}, { fearsome}, { frightening}, { horrendous}, { horrific}, { terrible}] 3: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint- hearted; " cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P. B. Shelley [ synonym: { cowardly}, { fearful}] [ ant: { brave}, { courageous}] 4: extremely distressing; " fearful slum conditions"; " a frightful mistake" [ synonym: { fearful}, { frightful}] 5: timid by nature or revealing timidity; " timorous little mouse"; " in a timorous tone"; " cast fearful glances at the large dog" [ synonym: { fearful}, { timorous}, { trepid}] 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] 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
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- FEARFUL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
fearful, apprehensive, afraid mean disturbed by fear fearful implies often a timorous or worrying temperament
- FEARFUL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
fearfulness (Definition of fearful from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
- FEARFUL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Fearful definition: causing or apt to cause fear; frightening See examples of FEARFUL used in a sentence
- fearful adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of fearful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- 777 Synonyms Antonyms for FEARFUL | Thesaurus. com
Find 777 different ways to say FEARFUL, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus com
- Fearful - definition of fearful by The Free Dictionary
1 scared, afraid, alarmed, frightened, nervous, terrified, apprehensive, petrified, jittery (informal) They were fearful that the fighting might spread
- FEARFUL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Fearful is used to emphasize that something is very bad You gave me a fearful shock! 'It sounds the most fearful hard work,' Sybil said later This is fearfully expensive compared with the last one I bought Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
- FEARFUL Synonyms: 243 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
The words afraid and apprehensive are common synonyms of fearful While all three words mean "disturbed by fear," fearful implies often a timorous or worrying temperament
- FEARFUL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
fearful adjective (FRIGHTENED) Add to word list C2 formal frightened or worried about something:
- FEARFUL | definition in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary
FEARFUL meaning: 1 frightened or worried: 2 very bad: Learn more
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