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fearful
adjective as in alarmed, apprehensive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aflutter
- aghast
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervy
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- solicitous
- spineless
- timorous
- tremulous
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
adjective as in horrifying
Weak matches
- appalling
- astounding
- atrocious
- awful
- baleful
- bloodcurdling
- creepy
- dire
- distressing
- dreadful
- eerie
- formidable
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- lurid
- macabre
- monstrous
- morbid
- overwhelming
- redoubtable
- shocking
- shuddersome
- sinister
- strange
- sublime
- terrible
- tremendous
- unearthly
- unspeakable
Example Sentences
Democratic lawmakers are strategizing how to handle the speech, fearful of becoming a foil to Trump on live television.
"I want them to see it as a way to become more comfortable with the world and less fearful."
Kheirbek’s lab has conducted experiments in rodents that identified the part of the brain that is activated when animals enter fearful and uncertain environments.
It's been one of the most fearful, distressing political events in most of our lifetimes and it's gotten worse every day.
Prosecutors are fearful and uncertain on what to do.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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