Fearful

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈfɪəfÉ™l/

Alternative forms

• fearefull obsolete
• fearfull obsolete

Origin

From fear + -ful.

Full definition of fearful

Adjective

1. Frightening.
2. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:Those two great champions did attonce pursew
  The fearefull damzell with incessant payns ....
3. Terrible.
4. Tending to fear.fearful boy

Synonyms

• (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous