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Definitions: Fearful |
FearfulAdjective1. Experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism". 2. Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse". 3. Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley. 4. Extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst". 5. Timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fearful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: FearfulSynonyms: awful (adj), coward(a) (adj), cowardly (adj), dire (adj), direful (adj), dread(a) (adj), dreaded (adj), dreadful (adj), fearsome (adj), frightening (adj), frightful (adj), horrendous (adj), horrific (adj), terrible (adj), timorous (adj), trepid (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: brave (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate. |
Fear | Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian. |
Afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more frightened than hurt. | |
Pain | Shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fearful |
| English words defined with "fearful": apprehension, apprehensiveness, awed, awful ♦ cautious, Chicken-hearted, Cowish, craven ♦ dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful ♦ fearsome, frightening ♦ green-eyed, gutlessness ♦ horrendous, horrific ♦ immeasurably, intimidate, intimidated ♦ jealous ♦ looking for ♦ overjealous ♦ Pavid, poor-spirited, pusillanimous ♦ quaint ♦ recreant ♦ terrible, timid, timorous, trepid ♦ unmanly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fearful": Adjective or Adverb, Ancient Mariner ♦ Barbed Steed, Blains ♦ CHICKEN-HEARTED, COW-HEARTED ♦ Doeg ♦ Holiday ♦ Knee ♦ Mantible ♦ Sit on Thorns ♦ TENDER PARNELL ♦ Wagon, Wail, Weeding. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fearful": tremendous. (references) |
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Screenplays | Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) What maybe happened is that he was so fearful of the cancer that his brain froze and stopped producing a chemical called Enzyme that his body needed. (Dad; writing credit: Gary David Goldberg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | His Fearful Finish (1921) Frightened Freddy the Fearful Policeman (1910) Taggart: Fearful Lightning (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fearful to contemplate.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. | | Hot under the collar; anxious; afraid; aghast; antsy; apprehensive; basket case; bugged; butterflies; careful; choked; clutched; concerned; disquieted; distressed; disturbed; dreading; fearful; fidgety; fretful; hacked; hyper; in suspense; jittery; jumpy. |
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Abraham Lincoln | With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. |
Francis Quarles | Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.'' |
Herman Melville | For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. |
Jeremy Taylor | Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. |
Lao-Tzu | Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness. |
Thomas B. Macaulay | And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? |
Thomas Carlyle | The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. |
| The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. | |
William Shakespeare | Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | While they were thus comfortably occupied, Mr. Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and fearful affection with his daughter. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Madeleine, lying almost flat under the fearful weight, was twice seen to try in vain to bring his elbows and knees nearer together. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Connie was proud and fearful of Rose of Sharon. |
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Health | Some people with Parkinson's disease become fearful and insecure. (references) | |
Over time there is often a pattern of spreading fearful avoidance. (references) | ||
Losing your appetite and nausea are two normal responses to feeling nervous or fearful. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | Editors and journalists, fearful of reprisals, exercised self-censorship. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | However, fearful of a PPP victory, Zia banned political activity in October 1979 and postponed national elections. (references) |
Burma | Believing in the virtues of a self-sufficient economy, and fearful of the impact of western sanctions, Burma's government has tended to avoid external connections. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iraq | An estimated 1 to 2 million self-exiled citizens reportedly remain fearful of returning to the country. (references) |
Political Economy | Ecuador | The area is additionally already very tense because environmental activist groups are protesting the pipeline, fearful that it will compromise the biological diversity of the area of Mindo, although thus far they have proved to be non-violent and do not present a security threat. (references) |
Women | Micronesia | In many cases, the victim decides against initiating legal charges because she is pressured by family, is fearful of further assault, or is convinced that the police will not involve themselves actively in what is seen as a private family problem. (references) |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Let the period be remembered as an admonition, and not as an encouragement, in any section of the Union, to make experiments where experiments are fraught with such fearful hazard. |
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| "Fearful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.31% of the time. "Fearful" is used about 721 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.31% | 716 | 9,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.55% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 721 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fearful". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nophah | N/A | Biblical | Fearful |
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Expressions using "fearful": as fearful as a hare ♦ at a fearful rate ♦ be fearful ♦ fearful of being ill ♦ fearful person. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "fearful": half-fearful. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fearful | 4 |
fearful dog | 4 |
fearful symmetry | 3 |
fearful puppy training | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "fearful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | angstig (afraid, horrible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | frikësues (agonistic, frightening), tmerrues (appalling, awe inspiring, awesome, deterrent, dreadful, grisly, horrific, lurid, monstrous, terrifying), i frikshëm (bloodcurdling, dreadful, eerie, eery, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهيب (august, awesome, awful, grand, imposing, magnificent, majestic, portly, solemn, sublime, venerable), مخيف (awful, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, grisly, gruesome, horrifying, scaremonger, terrifying), ناشئ عن خوف, قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry), قبيح مخيف, خواف (scared, scary, shrinking), خائف (afraid, coward, frightened), جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed), رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, chilly, dire, dreadful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, hairy, holy, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched), ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sissy, spiritless), страшен (alarming, almighty, apocalyptic, awesome, awful, dire, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, horrible, redoubtable, scary, terrible, terrific, tremendous, wicked), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), плашлив (flighty, nervy, shy, skittish, spooky, timid, timorous, wild), изпълнен със страхопочитание. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 可怕 (awful, dreadful, formidable, frightful, hideous, horrible, terrible, terribly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hairy, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrible, horrific, terrible, tremendous), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, unholy, unspeakable, villainous, weird), otřesný (appalling, atrocious, awful, fiendish, ghastly, harrowing, hateful, staggering, ugly, villainous), hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grim, hateful, hellish, horrible, mortal, terrible, terrific, tremendous), bojácný (chicken hearted, cowardly, nervous, pusillanimous, timid, weak-kneed), bázlivý (chicken hearted, faint-hearted, scary, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vervaard (afraid), kopschuw (afraid), angstig (afraid, alarming, grave, serious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | timigita (afraid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pelokas (apprehensive, timid, timorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | peureux (fearful person), inquiet, effrayant, craintif, affreux, épouvantable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | eangstich (afraid), benaud (afraid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | furchtsam (fearfully, sheepish, timid, timidly, timorous, timorously), furchtbar (abysmal, awful, awfully, dreadful, fearfully, formidable, frightful, frightfully, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, parlous, redoubtable, shocking, shockingly, terrible, terribly, tremendous), angstlichem, ängstlich (afraid, anxious, anxiously, apprehensive, apprehensively, cringing, fearfully, funky, scared, scary, scrupulous, scrupulously, terrified, timid, timorous, uneasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φοβιτσιάρησ (chicken, scary, white lipped), φοβερόσ (awesome, dreadful, formidable, horrifying, redoubtable, terrifying), δειλόσ (bashful, boggler, chicken, chicken hearted, coward, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily livered, mealymouthed, pusillanimous, sheepish, shy, skittish, skulker, timid, timorous, weak-kneed, white livered, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פח" י (cowardly, timorous, unmanly), איום (awful, dire, dreadful, fell, frightful, grim, hideous, intimidation, menace, terrible, terrific, threat), חושש (afraid, anxious, apprehensive, hesitating), חר" (afraid, anxious, pious, solicitous), ורא (bloody, damned, dire, dread, frightful, hellish, shocking, terrible, terrific, unholy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | félelmetes (awe inspiring, awesome, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, grim, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous), félénk (bashful, be shy, be timid, chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, coy, cringing, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, farouche, fearsome, nervous, poor spirited, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepfaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | anbhách. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terribile (abysmal, appaling, appalling, awful, dire, direful, dreadful, fearsome, gruesome, horrible, splitting, terrible, terrific, tremendous), spaventoso (appaling, appalling, awesome, awful, dire, direful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, horrible, nasty, terrific), spaventato (afraid, appals, frightens, terrified), pauroso (afraid, chicken hearted, eerie, frightening, nervous, scary, timid, timorous), orrido (dreadful, horrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ひ弱い (be afraid of, be fearful, be nervous, be timid, relentlessly, retaining composure, saturated, sickly, stickily, to be scared, undaunted, unperturbed, weak, wet through), 冷や冷や (being fearful, feeling chilly), 冷え冷え (being fearful, cold, feeling chilly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びくびく (be afraid of, be fearful, be nervous, be timid), ひやひや (being fearful, feeling chilly), ひえびえ (being fearful, cold, feeling chilly), ひえひえ (being fearful, cold, feeling chilly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무서운 (Dire, frightening, frightful, horrible, scary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | owanagh (frightening, frightful), goaill aggle (fear), faitagh (cowardly, irresolute, shy, shy person, timid, timid person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | fryktelig (atrocious, dreadful, horrible), engstelig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earfulfay terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, elect, fearsome, fell, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hideout, horrible, horrid, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), temeroso, temer (be afraid of, dreadful, fear, funk), tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, efface, faint-hearted, fearsome, gawk, mousey, mousy, pop, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous, unassertive), medroso (chicken hearted, faint-hearted, feasibility, funk, funnel, timid), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distemper, dreadful, dreary, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, harsh, horrible, horrid, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), assustador (astounding, fearsome, frightful, scary, startling). (various references) fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, funky, hare-hearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, spiritless, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow), feroce (awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, dreadful, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, inhuman, ruthless, savage, savagely, truculent, unmerciful), vajnic (fiery, frightful, terrible, vigorous), temãtor (cowardly, pusillanimous, suspecting, suspicious, timid, timorous, yellow), speriat (afeard, afraid, haggard), prãpãstios (abrupt, precipitous, steep), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dread, dreadful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, horrid, howling, terrible, terrific, tremendous, unearthly), înfricoşat (dreadful, frightened, funky, panicky), înfricat (frightened). (various references) страшный (blood-curding, dire, direful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, hideous, horrible, parlous, spooky, terrible, tremendous). (various references) tiom (soft, timid). (various references) strašljiv, plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearsome, henhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, mousey, mousy, scary, shy, timid, tremulous). (various references) temeroso (afraid, apprehensive, horrible, scary, timidly, timorous), medroso (afraid, faint, faint-hearted), angustioso (afraid, anguished, anxious, distressed, distressing, heartbreaking). (various references) rädd (afraid, chary, eery, frightened, jealous, scared, timid, timorous). (various references) น่าเกรงกลัว. (various references) saygılı (considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, dutiful, obeisant, pious, regardful, respectful, reverent, reverential), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), kaygılı (anxious, apprehensive, concerned, disconcerting, perturbed, worried), hürmetli (obeisant, respectable, respectful), endişeli (anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distressed, doubting, ill at ease, obsessed, on edge, on the downbeat, overcast, perturbed, preoccupied, solicitous, suspenseful, uneasy, weighty, windy, worried), dehşetli (dire, direful, fearsome, frightful, horrendous, terrifying), ürkek (faint, fainthearted, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, scary, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references) tez (timid), ьrkek (timid). (various references) наляканий (afraid, funky, pop-eyed), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), боязкий (backward, bashful, coward, dastard, dastardly, diffident, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, heartless, nervous, ovine, pavid, poor spirited, shamefaced, sheepish, spiritless, timid, timorous). (various references) sợ hãi (apprehensive), quá tệ kinh sợ, kinh khiếp (horrid), ghê sợ (frightful, frightfuly, ghastly, grisly), ghê khiếp (frightfuly, ghastly, horrific), ghê gớm (burning, desperate, formidable, gruesome, mortally, obscene, plaguy, precious, preciously, terrible, thundering, tremendous, woefully), đáng sợ sợ. (various references) ofnog (timorous), echrydus (frightful, shocking), arswydus (awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible), an.guriol (cruel, dire, painful, terrible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dira, dirae, dirus, formidolosa, formidolosis, formidolosus, meticulosus, pavido, pavidos, pavidum, pavidus, timida, timidae, timidi, timidis, timido, timidum, timidus, tremendus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | egeslic. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | timorosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Seismoi te megaloi kata topouV kai limoi kai loimoi esontai fobhtra te kai shmeia ap ouranou megala estai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Terraemotus magni erunt per loca et pestilentiae et fames terroresque de caelo et signa magna erunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And beoð mycele eorþan styrunga geond stowa: and cwealmas and hungor. and egsan of heofone and mycele tacna beoð. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Grete mouyngis of erthe schulen be bi placis, and pestilencis, and hungris, and dredis fro heuene, and grete tokenes schulen be. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And greate erthquakes shall be in all quarters and honger and pestilence: and fearfull thinges. And greate signes shall therbe from heven. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And great earthquakes will be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearful sights, and great signs will there be from heaven. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | mahitabo ang makusog nga mga linog, ug sa nagkalainlaing mga dapit adto ang mga gutom ug mga kamatay; ug unya may mga makalilisang nga talan-awon ug dagkung mga ilhanan gikan sa langit. |
| Croatian | I bit æe velikih potresa i po raznim mjestima gladi i pošasti; bit æe strahota i velikih znakova s neba." |
| Danish | Og store Jordskælv skal der være her og der og Hungersnød og Pest, og der skal ske frygtelige Ting og store Tegn fra Himmelen. |
| Dutch | En er zullen grote aardbevingen wezen in verscheidene plaatsen, en hongersnoden, en pestilentien; er zullen ook schrikkelijke dingen, en grote tekenen van den hemel geschieden. |
| Finnish | ja tulee suuria maanjäristyksiä, tulee ruttoa ja nälänhätää monin paikoin, ja taivaalla on oleva peljättäviä näkyjä ja suuria merkkejä. |
| French | il y aura de grands tremblements de terre, et, en divers lieux, des pestes et des famines; il y aura des phénomènes terribles, et de grands signes dans le ciel. |
| German | und es werden geschehen große Erdbeben hin und wieder, teure Zeit und Pestilenz; auch werden Schrecknisse und große Zeichen am Himmel geschehen. |
| Haitian Creole | Va gen gwo tranblemanntè. Nan divès kote va gen grangou ak epidemi. Lè sa a, va gen bagay terib ak gwo kokenn chenn siy k'ap parèt nan syèl la. |
| Hungarian | És minden felé nagy földindulások lesznek, és éhségek és döghalálok; és rettegtetések és nagy jelek lesznek az égbõl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di mana-mana akan terjadi gempa bumi yang hebat, bahaya kelaparan dan wabah penyakit. Akan terjadi hal-hal yang mengerikan dan dahsyat di langit. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan akan jadi gempa bumi yang besar, dan sini sana bala kelaparan dan sampar, dan kelihatan hal yang memberi dahsyat serta tanda ajaib yang besar-besar dari langit. |
| Italian | e vi saranno di luogo in luogo terremoti, carestie e pestilenze; vi saranno anche fatti terrificanti e segni grandi dal cielo. |
| Latvian | Un vietu vietâm bûs lielas zemestrîces un mçris, un bads, un ðausmas, un lielas zîmes no debesîm. |
| Maori | Tera hoki e puta nga ru nunui, a i nga tini wahi ka pa te matekai me nga mate uruta; me nga mea whakamataku hoki, me nga tohu nunui o te rangi. |
| Norwegian | og store jordskjelv skal det være og hunger og sott både her og der, og det skal skje forferdelige ting og store tegn fra himmelen. |
| Portuguese | e haverá em vários lugares grandes terremotos, e pestes e fomes; haverá também coisas espantosas, e grandes sinais do céu. |
| Rumanian | Pe alocurea vor fi mari cutremure de pqmknt, foamete wi ciumi; vor fi arqtqri knspqimkntqtoare, wi semne mari kn cer. |
| Russian | 'Х"ХФ 'ПМШЫЙЕ ЪЕНМЕФТСУЕОЙС П НЕУФБН, Й ЗМБ"Щ, Й НПТЩ, Й ХЦБУОЩЕ СЧМЕОЙС, Й ЧЕМЙЛЙЕ ЪОБНЕОЙС У ОЕ'Б. |
| Shuar | Ti uurkattawai; Untsurí nunkanam tsukasha, sunkursha ti átatui. Nayaimpinmasha ti ashammai Nánkamas Túrunattawai. Nujai Yus ni kakarmarin iniakmastatui.' |
| Spanish | Habrá grandes terremotos, hambres y pestilencias en varios lugares. Habrá terror y grandes señales del cielo. |
| Swahili | Kila mahali kutakuwa na mitetemeko mikubwa ya ardhi, kutakuwa na njaa na tauni. Kutakuwa na vituko vya kutisha na ishara kubwa angani. |
| Swedish | och det skall bliva stora jordbävningar, så ock hungersnöd och farsoter på den ena orten efter den andra, och skräcksyner skola visa sig och stora tecken på himmelen. |
| Uma | Ria mpai' linu bohe, pai' hiapa-apa ria haki' ropu' pai' oro'. Pai' hi langi' ria tanda bohe to mewulungahi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fearful": fearfuller, fearfullest, fearfully, fearfulness, fearfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Fearful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beakful, cearful, farmful, feerfull, ferdful, ferdfull, Freifrau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fearful" (pronounced fi"rful) |
| 5 | -i" r f u l | cheerful, tearful. |
| 4 | -r f u l | careful, prayerful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: earful, farfel, ferula, raffle, ruffle. | |
-2 letters: farle, feral, feuar, flare, luffa, ruffe, ureal. | |
-3 letters: alef, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, flue, frae, fuel, furl, leaf, lear, luff, lure, raff, rale, real, ruff, rule, urea. | |
-4 letters: aff, ale, are, arf, ear, eau, eff, elf, era, far, fer, feu, flu, fur, lar, lea, leu, ref. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-l-r-u" | |
+2 letters: fearfully. | |
+3 letters: fearfuller, sufferable, sufferably. | |
+4 letters: faultfinder, fearfullest, fearfulness. | |
+5 letters: buffaloberry, faultfinders, insufferable, insufferably, shuffleboard, unaffordable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 72 66 75 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- .-. ..-. ..- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a r f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0061 0072 0066 0075 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40716784728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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