A fearful thought entered my mind.
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Fearful
//ˈfɪɹfəl//
Synonyms for "fearful" (216 found)
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Strong matches (64)
Related words (108)
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Adjective(10 words)
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Synonyms
5 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
Translations
129 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- frikacak adj (tending to fear)
- trembur adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δειλός adj (tending to fear)
- τρήρων adj (tending to fear)
- φοβερός adj (frightening)
Arabic
1 entries- خَوَّاف adj (tending to fear)
Armenian
2 entries- երկչոտ adj (tending to fear)
- երկչոտ adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Belarusian
1 entries- бая́зны adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Bulgarian
4 entries- боязлив adj (tending to fear)
- изплашен adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- страхлив adj (tending to fear)
- страшен adj (frightening)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 惵 adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 惵 adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Czech
4 entries- bázlivý adj (tending to fear)
- děsivý adj (frightening)
- děsivý adj (terrible)
- hrozivý adj (frightening)
Danish
1 entries- frygtsom adj (tending to fear)
Dutch
4 entries- angstig adj (tending to fear)
- bang adj (tending to fear)
- schuw adj (tending to fear)
- verlegen adj (tending to fear)
French
4 entries- affreux adj (terrible)
- craintif adj (tending to fear)
- effrayant adj (frightening)
- peureux adj (tending to fear)
Galician
3 entries- medoso adj (tending to fear)
- medoñento adj (frightening)
- medoñento adj (tending to fear)
German
4 entries- furchtbar adj (frightening)
- furchtbar adj (terrible)
- furchtsam adj (tending to fear)
- scheu adj (tending to fear)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 adj (frightening)
- 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Greek
4 entries- τρομακτικός adj (frightening)
- τρομερός adj (terrible)
- φοβερός adj (frightening)
- φοβερός adj (terrible)
Hungarian
1 entries- félénk adj (tending to fear)
Irish
4 entries- anbhách adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- faiteach adj (tending to fear)
- scanrúil adj (frightening)
- scanrúil adj (tending to fear)
Italian
4 entries- impaurito adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- pavido adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- spaventato adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- timido adj (tending to fear)
Kazakh
3 entries- жасқаншақ adj (tending to fear)
- жүрексіз adj (tending to fear)
- үркек adj (tending to fear)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- hāh adj (frightening)
- yám adj (tending to fear)
Korean
2 entries- 두렵다 adj (frightening)
- 무섭다 adj (frightening)
Latin
4 entries- dirus adj (frightening)
- meticulosus adj (frightening)
- pavidus adj (tending to fear)
- pavidus adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Latvian
3 entries- baismīgs adj (frightening)
- biedējošs adj (frightening)
- nobijies adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Macedonian
1 entries- страшлив adj (tending to fear)
Manx
1 entries- faitagh adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Middle Korean
3 entries- 두립〮다〮 adj (frightening)
- 므ᅀᅴ〮엽다〮 adj (frightening)
- 저프다〮 adj (frightening)
Māori
2 entries- ihiihi adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- uruwehi adj (frightened, filled with terror)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوركسز adj (tending to fear)
Plautdietsch
3 entries- enjstlich adj (tending to fear)
- forchtsom adj (frightening)
- schietrich adj (tending to fear)
Polish
1 entries- strachliwy adj (tending to fear)
Portuguese
3 entries- amedrontado adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- amedrontador adj (frightening)
- temeroso adj (tending to fear)
Romanian
1 entries- groaznic adj (terrible)
Russian
4 entries- боязливый adj (tending to fear)
- испу́ганный adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- пугли́вый adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- стра́шный adj (frightening)
Sanskrit
1 entries- भीम adj (frightening)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- plàšljiv adj (tending to fear)
- prèplašen adj (tending to fear)
- пла̀шљив adj (tending to fear)
- прѐплашен adj (tending to fear)
Spanish
4 entries- espantadizo adj (tending to fear)
- miedoso adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- temeroso adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- timorato adj (tending to fear)
Turkish
4 entries- korkmuş adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- korkulu adj (frightening)
- korkulu adj (terrible)
- çekingen adj (tending to fear)
Ukrainian
3 entries- боязкий adj (tending to fear)
- жахли́вий adj (terrible)
- стра́шний adj (frightening)
Vietnamese
4 entries- sợ adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- sợ hãi adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- sợ sệt adj (frightened, filled with terror)
- đáng sợ adj (frightening)
Volapük
1 entries- dredabik adj (frightening)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
What a fearful waste of money!
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That was a fearful scene.
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The fearful noise astonished anyone coming for the first time.
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