Meaning
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- Frightening; causing fear.
- Tending to fear; timid.
- Terrible; shockingly bad.
- Frightened; filled with terror.
Synonyms
nervous
soul loss
be of
not easy
causing fear
be etc
be lest
be or
be that
weak kneed
lily livered
be about
faint heart
chicken hearted
glance at
lust for
not nice
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fear‧ful
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɪə(ɹ)fəl/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful.
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