| fearful | | |
| adj. | 1. fearful | experiencing or showing fear.; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism" |
| ~ afraid | filled with fear or apprehension.; "afraid even to turn his head"; "suddenly looked afraid"; "afraid for his life"; "afraid of snakes"; "afraid to ask questions" |
| adj. | 2. awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | 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" |
| ~ alarming | frightening because of an awareness of danger. |
| adj. | 3. cowardly, fearful | lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted.; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then" |
| ~ afraid | filled with fear or apprehension.; "afraid even to turn his head"; "suddenly looked afraid"; "afraid for his life"; "afraid of snakes"; "afraid to ask questions" |
| ~ timid | showing fear and lack of confidence. |
| ~ caitiff | despicably mean and cowardly. |
| ~ chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow | easily frightened. |
| ~ craven, recreant | lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful.; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight" |
| ~ dastard, dastardly | despicably cowardly.; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th" |
| ~ faint-hearted, fainthearted, timid, faint | lacking conviction or boldness or courage.; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady" |
| ~ funky | in a state of cowardly fright. |
| ~ poltroon | characterized by complete cowardliness. |
| ~ poor-spirited, pusillanimous, unmanly | lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful. |
| ~ ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part" |
| adj. | 4. fearful, frightful | extremely distressing.; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 5. fearful, timorous, trepid | timid by nature or revealing timidity.; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog" |
| ~ timid | showing fear and lack of confidence. |
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