fearful

Adjective Satellite

• experiencing or showing fear
  • "a fearful glance"
  • "fearful of criticism"
• causing fear or dread or terror
  • "a fearful howling"
• extremely distressing
  • "fearful slum conditions"
• timid by nature or revealing timidity
  • "cast fearful glances at the large dog"

Adjective

• Feeling or showing fear; alarming or dreadful.
• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; - P.B.Shelley

Adj

• Frightening; causing fear.
• Tending to fear; timid.
• Terrible; shockingly bad.
• Frightened; filled with terror.

Adv

• Extremely; fearfully.

Examples

• a fearful boy
• A FEARFUL silence fell as he considered the 100-point play his opponent just made in Scrabble.

Synonyms

awful, cowardly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, horrendous, horrific, terrible, timorous, trepid, frightened, timid

Antonyms

brave

Anagrams of fearful