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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
fearful
1. experiencing or showing fear (Freq. 2)
- a fearful glance
- fearful of criticism
• Similar to:
afraid
• Derivationally related forms:
fearfulness
2. causing fear or dread or terror (Freq. 1)
- the awful war
- an awful risk
- dire news
- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
- the dread presence of the headmaster
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
- a dreadful storm
- a fearful howling
- horrendous explosions shook the city
- a terrible curse
• Syn:
awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded,
dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
terribleness (for: terrible), dread (for: dread), awfulness (for: awful)
3. lacking courage;
ignobly timid and faint-hearted
- "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
• Syn:
cowardly
• Ant:
brave (for: cowardly)
• Similar to:
caitiff, chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered,
yellow, yellow-bellied, craven, recreant, dastard, dastardly,
faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted, funky, poltroon,
pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly
• See Also:
afraid, ignoble, timid
• Derivationally related forms:
fearfulness, coward (for: cowardly), cowardliness (for: cowardly)
• Attrubites:
cowardice, cowardliness
4. extremely distressing
- fearful slum conditions
- a frightful mistake
• Syn:
frightful
• Similar to:
bad
• Derivationally related forms:
frightfulness (for: frightful)
5. timid by nature or revealing timidity
- timorous little mouse
- in a timorous tone
- cast fearful glances at the large dog
• Syn:
timorous, trepid
• Similar to:
timid
• Derivationally related forms:
timorousness (for: timorous)
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