Fearful
Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
Indicating, or caused by, fear.
Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
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Fearful Quotations
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A fearful man is always hearing things.
Sophocles
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. Macaulay
Fearful Translations
fearful in German is furchtsam, furchtsam, angstlichem
fearful in Italian is angoscioso
fearful in Latin is timidus
fearful in Norwegian is fryktelig, engstelig
fearful in Spanish is temeroso
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