Word Meanings - FEARFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful

Additional info about word: FEARFUL

1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8. 3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak. 4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden. Syn. -- Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; ho

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEARFUL)

• Afraid
• Fearful
• apprehensive
• timid
• timorous
• cowardly
• fainthearted
• cautious
• careful
• frightened
• alarmed
• terrified
• suspicious
• distrustful
• anxious
• Alarming
• Terrible
• fearful
• frightful
• portentous
• ominous
• threatening
• Awful
• direful
• appalling
• terrible
• alarming
• dreadful
• horrible
• solemn
• horrific
• Dreadful
• shocking
• monstrous
• dire
• terrific
• awful
• Formidable
• terrifying
• discouraging
• serious

Related words: (words related to FEARFUL)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• SOLEMNIZATE
  To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
• SOLEMNLY
  In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• APPALL
  1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only
• HORRIFIC
  Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.
• HORRIFICATION
  That which causes horror. Miss Edgeworth.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• SOLEMNNESS
  The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.