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fearsome

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fearsome

1 causing fear

  • at night the child would always imagine that there were fearsome monsters lurking under his bed
Synonyms of fearsome

alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying
Words Related to fearsome

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
Near Antonyms of fearsome

calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)

nonintimidating, nonthreatening

2 extreme in degree, power, or effect

  • after working all afternoon in the hot sun, I had developed a fearsome thirst
Synonyms of fearsome

acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intense, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent
Words Related to fearsome

accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened

emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified

stressed

exhaustive, thorough

harsh, rigorous, severe
Near Antonyms of fearsome

feeble, weak

shallow, superficial

moderated, qualified

alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)

abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued
Antonyms of fearsome

light, moderate, soft

3 easily frightened

  • the more fearsome of the two children would only peer at the guests from a distance
Synonyms of fearsome

fainthearted, fearful, mousy (or mousey), scary, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous
Words Related to fearsome

chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered [archaic], poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless, unheroic, yellow

jittery, jumpy, spooky

anxious, apprehensive, nervous

afraid, alarmed, horrified, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized, unnerved
Near Antonyms of fearsome

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

mettlesome, spirited, spunky
Antonyms of fearsome

adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing, gutsy, hardy, venturesome, venturous

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