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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
Example Sentences
As an outreach community worker for Thai restaurants, Nongnapus “Mild” Phuangthong of the Thai Community Development Center said that many businesses are understaffed and fearful ICE will target them next.
"To everyone in Charlotte who is feeling anxious or fearful: you are not alone. Your city stands with you."
However, tonight Madame Babushkinov was on her very best behavior, full of warmth and charm, while the children ate in fearful silence.
Bears do live in the woods, and Penelope was both excited and fearful, and about either fact there can be no doubt.
She was fearful for the children, but she was also furious to the point of being in very high dudgeon indeed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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