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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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"Fearful" Quotes from Famous Books

... spring from the low couch where they had laid him when they carried him in, dusty and bloody, fearful and repulsive sight of maimed flesh and ...

— Trail's End • George W. Ogden

... Mountain, cold, colossal, harshly calm; and jointly with that sight there arose a shrieking, biting, fearful north wind. It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency. It struck a freezing terror to their hearts, and grew in violent attack until, as if repenting that it had foregone its power to save, ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... difficulty into Fort Detroit. Fort Pitt was now surrounded by them, but they soon abandoned it, in order to attack Colonel Bouquet, who was advancing with a strong corps under his command for its relief. Fearful struggles took place between Colonel Bouquet and the Indians, in which a great number was killed on both sides, but they were finally routed, and as their bravest chiefs had perished, it was supposed that their loss was irreparable. The ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... boys started off, followed by the most fearful execrations from their late acquaintance. They had scarcely gone a quarter of a mile when they met two mounted police, who halted their horses and inquired: "Have you seen anything of a man, tall and spare, dark hair and eyes. We have ...

— In A New World - or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia • Horatio Alger

... drove here and there, fearful, angered, without guidance; he did not pray. The words he had spoken so many times left him as though of malice. "We are all in the hands of God!—we are all in the hands of God!" Instead of them he could ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

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