fearful

Definition

Frightening; causing fear.

Etymology

From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful.

Example Sentences

• "Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me, But let them hear what fearful words I utter."
• "In the later Hebrew midrash Lilith is presented as the woman who knows how to recite the fearful name of God to work calamity; that this little girl cries out the fearful name of the sun god and thereby causes an earthquake would indicate that this girl is linked in the structure of the myth with Lilith."
• "a fearful boy"