fearful

fearful is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.
2. adjective. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid.
3. adjective. Indicating, or caused by, fear.
4. adjective. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
5. adjective. experiencing or showing fear

   "a fearful glance"

   "fearful of criticism"

6. adjective. causing fear or dread or terror

   "the awful war"

   "an awful risk"

   Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

7. adjective. timid by nature or revealing timidity

   "timorous little mouse"

   "in a timorous tone"

   Synonyms: timorous, trepid

8. adjective. lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted- P.B.Shelley

   "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"

   Synonyms: cowardly

9. adjective. extremely distressing

   "fearful slum conditions"

   "a frightful mistake"

   Synonyms: frightful

Synonyms

awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible, timorous, trepid, cowardly, frightful

Common word forms

fearfully, fearfuller, fearfullest, fearfulness

Words from these letters

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