Adjacent Words

fearsome definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1768 1. a. causing fear <a fearsome monster> b. intense, extreme <fearsome determination> 2. timid, timorous • fearsomely adverb • fearsomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. appalling or frightening, esp. in appearance. Derivatives: fearsomely adv. fearsomeness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fearsome Fear"somea. 1. Frightful; causing fear. [Scotch] ``This fearsome wind.'' --Sir W. Scott 2. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. ``A silly fearsome thing.`` --B. Taylor

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Fearsome is used to describe things that are frightening, for example because of their large size or extreme nature. He had developed a fearsome reputation for intimidating people. ...a fearsome array of weapons. = formidable ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

alarming, appalling, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, dreadful, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, formidable, frightening, frightful, goosy, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, menacing, mousy, nervous, overawing, rabbity, scaring, scary, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, startling, startlish, terrible, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy