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Definition of Fearful
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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Benjamin Disraeli

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown

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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