Definitions for fearful

fearful fear·ful

Spelling: [feer-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈfɪər fəl/

Fearful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in fearful (aefflru).

Definitions for fearful

adjective

  1. causing or apt to cause fear; frightening:
  2. feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude:
  3. full of awe or reverence:
  4. showing or caused by fear:
  5. extreme in size, intensity, or badness:

Origin of fearful

First recorded in 1300-50, fearful is from the Middle English word ferful. See fear, -ful

Examples for fearful

Though the cove was more quiet than the ocean, yet it was fearful enough, even there.

Your da's death was a fearful blow to her, and she never overed it.

Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?

McCarthy, fearful that Lou might fall, had whispered to Dahlgren, “Catch him if he starts to go down.”

How can we speak to their fears in a way that gets them to understand that there is nothing to be fearful of?

That fearful alley was no place for human beings; certainly not for these two.

At first, the doctors write, the villagers were “fearful and agitated,” lacking the basic necessities needed to survive.

The sympathy of it stirred the listener to fearful memories.

This past election, they were hardly mentioned by Republicans fearful of alienating moderates.

Oddly, though, Americans are not fearful enough when it comes to real threats.

Word Value for fearful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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