Thesaurus
fearful
Synonyms and Antonyms of fearful
- the fearful roar of a lion
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
- the stray cat that we took in is still fearful, even around us
chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless, unheroic, yellow
anxious, apprehensive, nervous
afraid, alarmed, horrified, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized, unnerved
brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous
assured, confident, self-assured, self-confident
determined, firm, game, plucky, resolute, undeterred, unflinching, unswerving
- the fearful wind and cold simply made being outside a miserable experience
- fearful of venturing out onto the dark highway, the stranded motorist decided to wait in the car for help
affrighted, afraid, aghast, alarmed, frightened, horrified, horror-struck, hysterical (also hysteric), scared, scary, shocked, spooked, terrified, terrorized
chicken, fainthearted, fearsome, shrinking, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous
agitated, anxious, apprehensive, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, funky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, perturbed, skittish, uneasy, upset, worried
cowed, daunted, intimidated, unnerved
coward, cowardly, craven, gutless, lily-livered, pusillanimous
adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, dashing, gutsy, plucky, spirited, spunky, venturesome, venturous
brave, courageous, gallant, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous
assured, collected, composed, confident, cool, sanguine, sure, unperturbed
Synonym Discussion of fearful
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- the child is fearful of loud noises
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- apprehensive of being found out
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- afraid to speak the truth
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