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fearful
adjective as in alarmed, apprehensive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aflutter
- aghast
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervy
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- solicitous
- spineless
- timorous
- tremulous
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
adjective as in horrifying
Weak matches
- appalling
- astounding
- atrocious
- awful
- baleful
- bloodcurdling
- creepy
- dire
- distressing
- dreadful
- eerie
- formidable
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- lurid
- macabre
- monstrous
- morbid
- overwhelming
- redoubtable
- shocking
- shuddersome
- sinister
- strange
- sublime
- terrible
- tremendous
- unearthly
- unspeakable
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Example Sentences
Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.
The grand jury decision “makes us a little bit more fearful to leave our homes every day,” Cook told me.
This past election, they were hardly mentioned by Republicans fearful of alienating moderates.
Oddly, though, Americans are not fearful enough when it comes to real threats.
At first, the doctors write, the villagers were “fearful and agitated,” lacking the basic necessities needed to survive.
And it is too true that ages of subjugation have demoralized, to a fearful extent, the Italian People.
His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.
A bull-fight is fearful enough, but it cannot compare with the struggle between a maddened buffalo and his pursuer.
The boy often wonders if there is another animal in the world with such fearful horns.
So with a fearful growl, and a bark that might have frightened a lion, Bravo made a leap and a spring after poor little Downy.
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On this page you'll find 193 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fearful, such as: afraid, agitated, anxious, frightened, hesitant, and jittery.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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