FEARFUL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • experiencing or showing fear
   Usage Example(s)
   • a fearful glance
   • fearful of criticism
   Similar To
   • afraid(p) (what does afraid(p) mean?)
2. Meaning
   • causing fear or dread or terror
   Synonym(s)
   • awful (what does awful mean?)
   • dire (what does dire mean?)
   • direful (what does direful mean?)
   • dread(a) (what does dread(a) mean?)
   • dreaded (what does dreaded mean?)
   • dreadful (what does dreadful mean?)
   • fearsome (what does fearsome mean?)
   • frightening (what does frightening mean?)
   • horrendous (what does horrendous mean?)
   • horrific (what does horrific mean?)
   • terrible (what does terrible mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • alarming (what does alarming mean?)
3. Meaning
   • timid by nature or revealing timidity
   Synonym(s)
   • timorous (what does timorous mean?)
   • trepid (what does trepid mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • timorous little mouse
   • in a timorous tone
   • cast fearful glances at the large dog
   Similar To
   • timid (what does timid mean?)
4. Meaning
   • lacking courage
   • ignobly timid and faint-hearted
   Synonym(s)
   • cowardly (what does cowardly mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then- P.B.Shelley
   Antonym(s)
   • brave (what does brave mean?)
   • courageous (what does courageous mean?)
   • fearless (what does fearless mean?)
   Similar To
   • caitiff (what does caitiff mean?)
   • chicken (what does chicken mean?)
   • chickenhearted (what does chickenhearted mean?)
   • lily-livered (what does lily-livered mean?)
   • white-livered (what does white-livered mean?)
   • yellow (what does yellow mean?)
   • yellow-bellied (what does yellow-bellied mean?)
   • dastard(a) (what does dastard(a) mean?)
   • dastardly (what does dastardly mean?)
   • faint (what does faint mean?)
   • fainthearted (what does fainthearted mean?)
   • timid (what does timid mean?)
   • funky (what does funky mean?)
   • poltroon (what does poltroon mean?)
   • pusillanimous (what does pusillanimous mean?)
   • poor-spirited (what does poor-spirited mean?)
   • unmanly (what does unmanly mean?)
   • craven (what does craven mean?)
   • recreant (what does recreant mean?)
   See Also
   • afraid(p) (what does afraid(p) mean?)
   • ignoble (what does ignoble mean?)
   • timid (what does timid mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • cowardice (what does cowardice mean?)
   • cowardliness (what does cowardliness mean?)
5. Meaning
   • extremely distressing
   Synonym(s)
   • frightful (what does frightful mean?)
   • terrible (what does terrible mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • fearful slum conditions
   • a frightful mistake
   • suffered terrible thirst
   Similar To
   • bad (what does bad mean?)