fearful

/'fiəful/

Thân thiện

A child casts a fearful glance at the large dog.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing fear; afraid: Experiencing or exhibiting the emotion of fear.
   • Causing fear; frightening: Inspiring dread or terror; terrible.
   • Extreme in degree or extent; very bad: Used informally to emphasize something unpleasant or of poor quality.

Examples of Usage

• Feeling or showing fear:
  • She gave a fearful glance toward the dark alley.
  • He is fearful of speaking in public.
• Causing fear:
  • The storm was a fearful sight.
  • They heard a fearful roar from the cave.
• Extreme or very bad (informal):
  • The room was in a fearful mess.
  • He made a fearful mistake on the report.

Advanced Usage

• "fearful of": afraid of something specific.
  • Investors are fearful of a market downturn.
• "fearful that": afraid that something will happen.
  • She was fearful that she would be late.

Variants and Related Words

• Fearfully (adverb): In a fearful manner; very.
  • He looked fearfully at the approaching car.
  • It was a fearfully difficult task.
• Fearfulness (noun): The state or quality of being fearful.
  • Her fearfulness prevented her from taking risks.

Synonyms

• Afraid: Feeling fear or anxiety.
• Frightened: Made afraid.
• Terrifying: Causing extreme fear.
• Dreadful: Causing great fear or suffering; very bad.

Antonyms

• Fearless: Lacking fear.
• Brave: Ready to face danger or pain.
• Reassuring: Serving to remove someone's fears or doubts.

Related Phrases

• Nothing fearful: Used to say something is not scary or bad.
  • The procedure is nothing fearful; it's quite simple.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. timid by nature or revealing timidity
   • timorous little mouse
   • in a timorous tone
   • cast fearful glances at the large dog
2. extremely distressing
   • fearful slum conditions
   • a frightful mistake
3. lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
   • cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then- P.B.Shelley
4. 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
5. experiencing or showing fear
   • a fearful glance
   • fearful of criticism

Từ đồng nghĩa

• timorous
• trepid
• frightful
• cowardly