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1
causing fear
- at night the child would always imagine that there were fearsome monsters lurking under his bed
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2
extreme in degree, power, or effect
- after working all afternoon in the hot sun, I had developed a fearsome thirst
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3
easily frightened
- the more fearsome of the two children would only peer at the guests from a distance
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- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- chicken-livered,
- cowardly,
- craven,
- dastardly,
- gutless,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered
- [archaic],
- poltroon,
- pusillanimous,
- spineless,
- unheroic,
- yellow
Near Antonyms for fearsome
- brave,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- doughty,
- fearless,
- gallant,
- greathearted,
- heroic
- (also heroical),
- intrepid,
- lionhearted,
- stalwart,
- stout,
- stouthearted,
- undaunted,
- valiant,
- valorous
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“Fearsome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fearsome. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of fearsome was in 1768
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