FEARFUL

fearful

1. [Adjective]: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley

2. experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

3. timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"

4. extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"

5. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "

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