Adjective: fearful feer-ful
- Experiencing or showing fear
"a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- Causing fear, dread or terror
"a fearful howling";
- awful, dire, direful [archaic], dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
- Extremely distressing
"fearful slum conditions";
- frightful
- Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
"fearful dogs, ye will not aid me then";
- cowardly
- Timid by nature or revealing timidity
"cast fearful glances at the large dog";
- timorous, trepid [rare]
See also: afeard [archaic], afeared [archaic], afraid, alarming, bad, caitiff [archaic], chicken [informal], chickenhearted [informal], chicken-livered, cowardice, cowardliness, craven, dastard, dastardly, faint, fainthearted, faint-hearted, 'fraid [non-standard], funky [informal], ignoble, lily-livered, poltroon, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, recreant [archaic], timid, unmanly, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied [informal]
Encyclopedia: Fearful