| ADJECTIVE | all | fearful | experiencing or showing fear |
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| all | fearful, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | causing fear or dread or terror | |
| all | fearful, cowardly | lacking courage | |
| all | fearful, frightful | extremely distressing | |
| all | fearful, timorous, trepid | timid by nature or revealing timidity |
| Sounds | fih'rfahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Experiencing or showing fear. | |
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| Broader | afraid | Filled with fear or apprehension |
| Spanish | miedoso | |
| Catalan | poruc | |
| Nouns | fearfulness | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
| Adverbs | fearfully | in fear, "she hurried down the stairs fearfully" |
| Meaning | Causing fear or dread or terror. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a fearful howling" | |
| Synonyms | awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | |
| Broader | alarming | Frightening because of an awareness of danger |
| Spanish | alarmante, calamitoso, espantosa, espantoso, fatal, horrendo, horrible, horrorosa, horroroso, pavoroso, sobrecogedor, temible, temido, terrible, tremendo | |
| Catalan | alarmant, calamitós, esfereïdor, espantós, esparverador, fatal, horrible, horripilant, horrorós, paorós, temible, terrible | |
| Meaning | lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted. | |
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| Synonym | cowardly | |
| Attribute of | cowardice, cowardliness | The trait of lacking courage |
| Narrower | caitiff | despicably mean / mean and cowardly |
| chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied | easily frightened | |
| craven, recreant | lacking even the rudiments of courage | |
| dastard, dastardly | despicably cowardly | |
| faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted | lacking conviction or boldness or courage | |
| funky | In a state of cowardly fright | |
| poltroon | Characterized by complete cowardliness | |
| pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly | lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution | |
| See also | afraid | Filled with fear or apprehension |
| ignoble | Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | |
| timid | showing fear and lack of confidence | |
| Opposite | brave, courageous | possessing or displaying courage |
| Spanish | cobarde, pusilánime, vil | |
| Catalan | covard, poruc | |
| Nouns | fearfulness | the trait of being afraid |
| Meaning | Extremely distressing. | |
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| Example | "fearful slum conditions" | |
| Synonym | frightful | |
| Broader | bad | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
| Meaning | timid by nature or revealing timidity. | |
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| Example | "cast fearful glances at the large dog" | |
| Synonyms | timorous, trepid | |
| Broader | timid | showing fear and lack of confidence |
| Spanish | temeroso, tímido | |
| Catalan | temerós | |
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