English-Thai Dictionary

fearful

ADJ น่า เกรงกลัว  น่ากลัว  ขี้กลัว  afraid apprehensive nervous brave courageous na-kang-kua

 

fearfully

ADV อย่าง น่ากลัว 

 

fearfulness

N ความ น่ากลัว  ความหวาดกลัว  cowardice timidity kwam-na-klua

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEARFUL

a. 1. Affected by fear; feeling pain in expectation of evil; apprehensive with solicitude; afraid. I am fearful of the consequences of rash conduct. Hence,
2. Timid; timorous; wanting courage.
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Deuteronomy 2 :8.
3. Terrible; impressing fear; frightful; dreadful.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 1 :31.
4. Awful; to be reverenced.
O Lord, who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises? Exodus 15:11.
That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, Jehovah, thy God. Deuteronomy 28:58.

 

FEARFULLY

adv. 1. Timorously; in fear.
In such a night did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew.
2. Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror.
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully on the confined deep.
3. In a manner to impress admiration and astonishment.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14.

 

FEARFULNESS

n. 1. Timorousness; timidity.
2. State of being afraid; awe; dread.
A thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders.
3. Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isaiah 33:14.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FEARFUL

FEARFUL Fear "ful, a.

 

1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

 

2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

 

3. Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.

 

4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful. This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God. Deut. xxviii. 58. Death is a fearful thing. Shak. In dreams they fearful precipices tread. Dryden.

 

Syn. -- Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; ho

 

FEARFULLY

FEARFULLY Fear "ful *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a fearful manner.

 

FEARFULNESS

FEARFULNESS Fear "ful *ness, n.

 

Defn: The state of being fearful.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fearful

fear ful |ˈfi (ə )rfəl ˈfɪ (ə )rfəl | ▶adjective 1 feeling afraid; showing fear or anxiety: bond traders have remained fearful of inflation | [ with clause ] : the mothers were fearful that their daughters would marry and move abroad. • causing or likely to cause people to be afraid; horrifying: a fearful accident. 2 informal very great: he could cause a fearful commotion. DERIVATIVES fear ful ness noun

 

fearfully

fear ful ly |ˈfi (ə )rfəlē ˈfɪrfəli | ▶adverb 1 in an anxious manner; apprehensively: he glanced over his shoulder fearfully. 2 [ as submodifier ] dreadfully; extremely: she was fearfully worried for the welfare of her family.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fearful

fear |ful |ˈfɪəfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 feeling or showing fear or anxiety: they are fearful of the threat of nuclear war | [ with clause ] : he's fearful that his career is over. • causing or likely to cause people to be afraid; horrifying: a fearful accident. 2 informal very great: he was in a fearful hurry. DERIVATIVES fearfulness noun

 

fearfully

fear |ful ¦ly |ˈfɪəf (ə )li, ˈfɪəfʊli | ▶adverb 1 in an anxious manner; apprehensively: he glanced over his shoulder fearfully. 2 [ as submodifier ] dreadfully; extremely: she was fearfully worried for the welfare of her family.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fearful

fearful adjective 1 they are fearful of being overheard: afraid, frightened, scared (stiff ), scared to death, terrified, petrified; alarmed, panicky, nervous, tense, apprehensive, uneasy, worried (sick ), anxious; informal jittery, jumpy. 2 the guards were fearful: nervous, trembling, quaking, cowed, daunted; timid, timorous, faint-hearted; informal jittery, jumpy, twitchy, trepidatious, keyed up, in a cold sweat, a bundle of nerves; informal spooked. 3 a fearful accident: horrific, terrible, dreadful, awful, appalling, frightful, ghastly, horrible, horrifying, horrendous, terribly bad, shocking, atrocious, abominable, hideous, monstrous, gruesome.

 

fearfully

fearfully adverb she opened the door fearfully: apprehensively, uneasily, nervously, timidly, timorously, hesitantly, with one's heart in one's mouth.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fearful

fearful adjective 1 they are fearful of being overheard by the enemy: afraid, frightened, scared, scared stiff, scared to death, terrified, petrified; alarmed, panicky, nervous, tense, apprehensive, uneasy, hesitant, disquieted, worried, worried sick, anxious; Brit. nervy; informal jittery, jumpy, in a (blue ) funk; Brit. informal strung up; dialect frit; archaic afeared, affrighted. 2 the guards were ill trained and fearful: nervous, trembling, quaking, quivering, shrinking, cowering, cowed, daunted; timid, timorous, diffident, faint-hearted, cowardly, pusillanimous; Brit. nervy; informal jittery, jumpy, twitchy, keyed up, yellow, chicken, in a cold sweat, a bundle of nerves, like a cat on a hot tin roof, frightened of one's own shadow; Brit. informal having kittens, like a cat on hot bricks, windy; N. Amer. informal spooked, spooky, antsy; dated overstrung, unquiet. 3 there has been a fearful accident: terrible, dreadful, awful, appalling, frightful, ghastly, horrific, horrible, horrifying, horrendous, very bad, terribly bad, shocking, atrocious, abominable, hideous, monstrous, dire, grim, unspeakable, gruesome, grievous, lamentable, distressing, harrowing, alarming. ANTONYMS minor. 4 informal he was in a fearful hurry: very great, great, extreme, real, dreadful; informal terrible, impossible; Brit. informal right, proper.

 

fearfully

fearfully adverb 1 she opened the door fearfully: apprehensively, uneasily, nervously, timidly, timorously, diffidently, hesitantly; with apprehension /trepidation, with bated breath, with one's heart in one's mouth. 2 informal Stephanie looked fearfully glamorous: extremely, exceedingly, exceptionally, remarkably, uncommonly, extraordinarily, incredibly, most, very, really, immensely, thoroughly, positively, decidedly, downright; Scottish unco; N. Amer. quite; informal tremendously, awfully, terribly, frightfully, dreadfully, terrifically, desperately, seriously, devilishly, hugely, fantastically, madly, ultra, too … for words, mucho, mega, majorly, oh-so; Brit. informal jolly, ever so, dead, well, fair, right; N. Amer. informal real, mighty, awful, plumb, powerful, way; S. African informal lekker; informal, dated devilish, hellish, frightfully; archaic exceeding.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fearful

fear ful /fɪ́ə r f (ə )l /→fear 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 ｟かたく ｠〖be fearful of [about ] A /of doing 〗〈人が 〉A 〈物 事 〉を […するのではないかと ] 恐れている, こわがっている ; 〖～ that [｟かたく ｠lest ]節 〗…ではないかと恐れている ; 〖～ for A 〗A 〈将来など 〉が不安である, Aを心配している ▸ The police are fearful of being attacked [another attack ] by aggressive residents .警察は攻撃的な地域住民から襲われるの [のさらなる攻撃 ]を恐れている 2 おびえた, びくびくした .3 ｟英 やや古 くだけて ｠ひどく悪い, 最悪の ▸ a fearful situation ひどい状況 4 ｟やや古 ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗恐ろしい ▸ fearful looks 恐ろしげな顔つき 5 ものすごい, 非常な ▸ fearful joy ものすごい喜び 6 (神を )畏 （おそ ）れる ,敬虔 （けいけん ）な .～ness 名詞 U 恐ろしさ ; こわがること ; ひどさ, ものすごさ .

 

fearfully

f é ar ful ly 副詞 1 恐れて, 恐る恐る .2 ｟くだけて ｠ひどく, とても ▸ It's fearfully cold .とても寒い