- experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
- awful: 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"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous ...
- cowardly: lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
- timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
- (fearfully) in fear, "she hurried down the stairs fearfully"
- (fearfulness) fear: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- (fearfulness) the trait of being afraid
- Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. Some psychologists such as John B. ...
- frightening; frightened, filled with terror; terrible
- terrible; espantoso; temeroso; grande; enorme; tremendo; terrible; de miedo
- cause fear, frightening, terrifying, experience/feel (fear/anxiousness/apprehension | reverence/dread/awe), afraid, terrible, bad, dreadful, awful