Fearful - English meaning

adjective

Feeling fear or anxiety; frightened.

Usage examples:

I'm afraid of dogs

verb

Make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger.

adjective

Frightened or concerned that one may be in danger or that something undesirable will happen.

Usage examples:

They didn't seem too alarmed

adjective

Fitted or protected with an alarm.

Usage examples:

This door is locked and alarmed

adjective

Feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.

Usage examples:

She was extremely anxious about her exams

adjective

Wanting very much for something to happen; eager

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] i’ve been anxious to meet you., [ + to infinitive ] it was getting late, and i …

adjective

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Usage examples:

He felt apprehensive about going home

adjective

Feeling anxiety about the future; fearing that something unpleasant will happen

Usage examples:

We’re all apprehensive about tomorrow’s meeting., they looked apprehensively around the room.

verb

Make (someone) worried or uneasy.

Usage examples:

World leaders are surely disquieted by the prospect of a global economic meltdown

noun

A feeling of worry or unease.

Usage examples:

Public disquiet about animal testing

adjective

Causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious.

Usage examples:

There's been a dreadful accident

adjective

Very bad

Usage examples:

I realized i had committed a dreadful mistake.

adjective

Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great.

Usage examples:

Extreme cold

noun

Either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible.

Usage examples:

We represented opposite extremes of college society—he a member of the old guard, i one of the radi…

adjective

Afraid or anxious.

Usage examples:

A frightened child

verb

Make (someone) afraid or anxious.

Usage examples:

The savagery of his thoughts frightened him

adjective

Feeling fear or worry

Usage examples:

She gets frightened when he shouts at her., the police officer found a frightened child in the hut.…

adjective

Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

Usage examples:

The article was of great interest

noun

An important or distinguished person.

Usage examples:

The beatles, bob dylan, all the greats

adverb

Another term for literae humaniores.

adjective

Tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.

Usage examples:

Clients are hesitant about buying

adjective

If you are hesitant, you do not do something immediately or quickly because you are nervous or not certain

Usage examples:

You seemed a bit hesitant about recommending that restaurant - is something wrong with it?, she gav…

adjective

Not able to occur, exist, or be done.

Usage examples:

A seemingly impossible task

adjective

Nervous or unable to relax.

Usage examples:

Caffeine makes me jittery

adjective

Showing nervousness or fear about something

Usage examples:

Jittery about sth markets are feeling very jittery about a possible rise in interest rates., jitter…

verb

Push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet.

Usage examples:

The cat jumped off his lap

noun

An act of jumping from a surface by pushing upwards with one's legs and feet.

Usage examples:

In making the short jump across the gully he lost his balance

Move forward by leaps and bounds

adjective

Easily agitated or alarmed.

Usage examples:

A sensitive, nervous person

adjective

Easily agitated or alarmed; nervous.

Usage examples:

He was nervy and on edge

adjective

Worried

Usage examples:

I'm always nervy before an exam.

adjective

Feeling or characterized by uncontrollable fear or anxiety.

Usage examples:

I started to feel panicky and breathless

adjective

Feeling suddenly very worried or frightened

Usage examples:

A panicky feeling/expression/action, is he the panicky type?

adjective

So frightened that one is unable to move; terrified.

Usage examples:

The petrified child clung to her mother

verb

Change (organic matter) into a stony substance by encrusting or replacing it with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit.

adjective

Very frightened

Usage examples:

As soon as they got on the stage they were petrified with fright.

adjective

Denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.

Usage examples:

She's never had a proper job

adverb

Satisfactorily or correctly.

Usage examples:

My eyes were all blurry and i couldn't see proper

noun

The part of a church service that varies with the season or feast.

Usage examples:

We go to the high mass, with plainsong propers sung by the ritual choir

adjective

Actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.

Usage examples:

Julius caesar was a real person

adverb

Really; very.

Usage examples:

My head hurts real bad

noun

The basic monetary unit of brazil since 1994, equal to 100 centavos.

Usage examples:

Plus, currencies in these markets have strengthened, meaning returns in hungarian forints or brazil…

adjective

Morally good, justified, or acceptable.

Usage examples:

I hope we're doing the right thing

adverb

To the furthest or most complete extent or degree (used for emphasis).

Usage examples:

The car spun right off the track

noun

That which is morally correct, just, or honourable.

Usage examples:

She doesn't understand the difference between right and wrong

adjective

Fearful; frightened.

Usage examples:

I wasn't scared at all

verb

Cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten.

Usage examples:

I was scared stiff

adjective

(especially of a muscle) stretched tight or rigid.

Usage examples:

She tried to relax her tense muscles

verb

Become tense, typically through anxiety or nervousness.

Usage examples:

Her body tensed up

noun

A set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.

Usage examples:

The future tense

adjective

Extremely bad or serious.

Usage examples:

A terrible crime

verb

Cause to feel extreme fear.

Usage examples:

The thought terrifies me

adjective

Causing or feeling anxiety; troubled or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

She felt guilty now and a little uneasy

adjective

Anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.

Usage examples:

Michelle knew that her friends were very worried about her

verb

Feel or cause to feel anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems.

Usage examples:

He worried about his soldier sons in the war

adjective

Anxious because you're thinking about problems or other unpleasant things that are happening or may happen

Usage examples:

We were very worried when he did not answer his phone., she had a worried look on her face.