Fearful

What do we mean by fearful?

Experiencing fear; frightened. adjective

Inclined to feel anxiety or apprehension; timid; nervous. adjective

Indicating anxiety or fear. adjective

Causing or capable of causing fear; frightening. adjective

Extreme, as in degree or extent. Used especially of something negative. adjective

Feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude; afraid.

Timid; timorous; wanting courage.

Causing or such as to cause fear; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful; terrible; awful.

Showing fear; produced by fear; indicative of fear.

Synonyms Pusillanimous, cowardly, faint-hearted. Dreadful. Frightful, etc. (see awful); dire, direful, horrible, distressing, shocking.

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. adjective

Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. adjective

Indicating, or caused by, fear. adjective

Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. adjective

Frightening. adjective

Frightened, filled with terror. adjective

Terrible. adjective

Extremely distressing adjective

Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted adjective

Frightening.

Tending to fear; timid.

Terrible; shockingly bad.

Frightened; filled with terror.

Words that are spelled similarly to fearful:
fearful, earful, tearful.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fearful:
reprisals, symmetry, anxious, stimuli, sima, gao, attachment, shi, consequences, empress, afraid, yuan, wang, yang, cao, emperor, fear, angry, persuaded, abandon, fears, might, fled, tang, hiding, prefecture, faces, losing, terror, happen, believing, fate, rebellion, lose, han, throne, feelings, safety, violent, destroy, imperial, seeing, kill, refused.

Words that rhyme with fearful:
cheerful, tearful, dear phil.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fearful:
minded, anxious, sable, less, awkward, chorus.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fearful:
thing, odds, night, storm, struggle, state, sight, consequences, responsibility, symmetry, rapidity, scene, thoughts, eyes, cry, joy, havoc, blow, extent, slaughter, loss, moment, dream, thought, rate, cost, noise, price, child, heart, situation, manner, death, dreams, ravages, glance, sound, look, risk, silence, danger, tragedy, expectation, crisis, punishment, apprehensions, anticipation, war, crash, crime, scenes, battle, picture, apprehension, vengeance, conflict, doom, spectacle, shock, situations, catastrophe, anxiety, strain, ordeal, sights, oath, glances, calamity, losses, fate, expression, cries, violence, destruction, mistake, massacre, forebodings.

Consonant match to fearful:
farfalle, farfel, forefeel, fair fille.

Words that sound like fearful:
fearful, farfel, fearfully, farfalle, fishful, forefeel, feral, farrel, ferial, ferrol, farol, forceful, fitful, flowerful, forkful, faffle, forel, forrill, farrell, ferrell, ferrel, farell, tearful, fairfield, farfetch, ferrule, ferrill, fair isle, careful, faithful, cheerful, fizzle, fateful, earful, farkle, fourfold, fira, for fun, for real, fishel, wareful, farfalla, forsell, fischel, fish fillet, fiera, fire hall, fierily, for all, spheral, furile, four fold, fear for, farewell, fare well, powerful, fearing, virile, carful, ireful, viril, virial, jarful, warfel, showerful, therial, fulfill, forfeit, federal, frill, farwell, falafel, foretell, fulfil, farah, farrah, fera, feria, femoral, fuzzle, ferra, dareful, felafel, fril, futral, farrelly, ferals, faira, federale, fish filet, fecial, femeral, fairily, foresail, ofarrell, fa fa, far-flung, far flung, facial, direful.