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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

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

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

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

A fearful man is always hearing things.
Sophocles

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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