He has a fearsome intellect before which even the most learned cower.
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Fearsome
//ˈfɪɹsəm//
Synonyms for "fearsome" (66 found)
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Related words (33)
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2 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- страховит adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- страшен adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Catalan
1 entries- temible adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 可怕的 adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Finnish
1 entries- pelottava adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
French
2 entries- effrayant adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- effroyable adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Georgian
2 entries- საშინელი adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- შემაშინებელი adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
German
2 entries- furchterregend adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- fürchterlich adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Irish
1 entries- scanrúil adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഭയാനക adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Māori
2 entries- wehiwehi adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- wewehi adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- forchtsom adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Polish
1 entries- straszny adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Portuguese
1 entries- temível adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Russian
2 entries- грозный adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
- страшный adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zastràšujūćī adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Spanish
1 entries- temible adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Swedish
1 entries- skräckinjagande adj (frightening, especially in appearance)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
When hell is inside the soul, death is not fearsome.
Source: tatoeba (3446607)
I have seen death in many forms, but never has it appeared to me in a more fearsome aspect than in that dark, grimy apartment, which looked out upon one of the main arteries of suburban London.
Source: tatoeba (6303832)
He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams.
Source: tatoeba (7025692)
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