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 fearful ['fɪrfəl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 可怕的, 恐怕的, 担心的

  1. They were fearful that the river would flood.
    他们担心河流会发洪水。
  2. A fearful person is a weak person.
    怕这怕那的人是软弱的人。
  3. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy.
    担心的，忧虑的对未来焦虑或恐惧；不安的


fearful
[ adj ]
  1. lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

    2. <adj.all>
    cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then
  2. experiencing or showing fear

    3. <adj.all>
    a fearful glance
    fearful of criticism
  3. causing fear or dread or terror

    4. <adj.all>
    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
  4. extremely distressing

    5. <adj.all>
    fearful slum conditions
    a frightful mistake
  5. timid by nature or revealing timidity

    6. <adj.all>
    timorous little mouse
    in a timorous tone
    cast fearful glances at the large dog


Fearful \Fear"ful\ (f[=e]r"f[.u]l), a.
1. Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidst
all their power. --Bp.
Warburton.

2. Inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage;
timid.

What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?
--Deut. xx. 8.

3. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
--Shak.

4. Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror;
terrible; frightful; dreadful.

This glorious and fearful name, The Lord thy God.
--Deut.
xxviii. 58.

Death is a fearful thing. --Shak.

In dreams they fearful precipices tread. --Dryden.

Syn: Apprehensive; afraid; timid; timorous; horrible;
distressing; shocking; frightful; dreadful; awful.

  1. But many traders fearful of carrying their positions through the three-day weekend opted to take profits rather than risk a market dive when trading resumes on Tuesday.
  2. "They have gone through the Niagara River and into Lake Ontario," Ms. Claudi said. "Now they are swimming their way toward Toronto." Scientists are not sure what the ecological impact will be, but are fearful of it.
  3. Months and months of being told that the outside world is Satan's playground, that saying, thinking, doing or feeling certain things will send them straight to hell, has left many confused and fearful.
  4. Shultz went to a hotel in east Jerusalem, stood in the floodlit courtyard and read a statement suggesting the Palestinians were fearful of working with the United States.
  5. Sometimes a specific event could explain it: the botching of the Dardanelles campaign, for example, and the fearful slaughter that followed.
  6. The nation's top general, picked by President Lee Teng-hui to become premier, tried Thursday to win over lawmakers fearful about military intervention in politics.
  7. Town Meeting Day is as much a symbol of Vermont as the maple sap that flows soon after, but this year's town meetings find Vermonters fearful of their state's future because farms are going out of business and open land is sprouting vacation homes.
  8. The Bundesbank left rates unchanged on Thursday, and in the early part of the week investors were fearful that the Fed might tighten US rates.
  9. By contrast, the Fed is faced with a deepening recession and a banking system weakened by loan losses and fearful of lending into a sinking economy.
  10. Although the plan reportedly is almost ready to be carried out, Newsweek said members of Congress _ fearful the operation could escalate into another Vietnam, with high U.S. casualties _ were unlikely to view it favorably.
  11. At the same time, Mr. Sondheim has always been fearful that the romantic would veer toward the sentimental.
  12. The Sovietskaya Rossiya article indicated residents became fearful of the Sevmorput because they had not been given details about problems with it.
  13. He described the radio broadcast by his father in 1945 announcing Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies as a "fearful thing" for his father to "bear the people's humiliation."
  14. "I was so fearful then," Mr. Suda recalls.
  15. The farmworkers are fearful of job losses from Western competition and the transition of state-owned land to the private sector.
  16. "I'm more fearful of hunger than I am of laws," he says.
  17. Israeli government officials were tight-lipped about the immigration of Albanian Jews, apparently fearful of harming the effort.
  18. Rather than focusing exclusively on cost retrenchment, managers should reflect on the opportunities for competitive advantage that the decision slowdown of fearful buyers may offer the courageous marketer.
  19. In the absence of any news to explain the market's weakness, brokers said many traders remained fearful that economic and inflationary pressures might soon reach a point where they would prompt the Federal Reserve to begin tightening credit.
  20. Turkey's western middle class is no longer as fearful as it once of being swamped in a tide of religious revivalism. 'Fundamentalism has peaked in this country,' says one Istanbul professor confidently. It is, nonetheless, still a powerful force.
  21. It is there that Paraguay's future lies, not with an aged dictator so unsure of his own rule and so fearful of dissent that he must fix his periodic re-election.
  22. The industry is especially fearful that the new machines will be used to copy digital audio compact disks, which now offer the highest sound quality source of music and carry a premium price.
  23. Williams changed the ending for the Broadway director, Elia Kazan: 'I was fearful that I would lose his interest if I didn't re-examine the script from his point of view' he wrote coyly about rewriting in 1955.
  24. But traders remain fearful that oil prices will surge again, as they did Monday on speculation that an Iran-Iraq ceasefire would help restore unity to the badly splintered Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
  25. Hundreds of people displaced from damaged homes or fearful of going back inside buildings still live in tents and Red Cross shelters in Watsonville.
  26. "I know the witnesses were fearful," said Hoffman. "But they should turn it around and feel as a mother would.
  27. A rekindled dispute over specks of inhospitable rock in the East China Sea is feeding anti-Japanese sentiment in quarters already fearful that Tokyo is drifting away from pacifism.
  28. Of the 11 years of his presidency, the country has been at war for nine and his invasion of Kuwait was partly because he was fearful of the increasing demands for democracy.
  29. Many small-business owners are confused and fearful about the legislation.
  30. So far, those two countries have given no indication of any willingness to interfere with the oil flow, with Saudi Arabia reportedly fearful that any such action could provide Baghdad with a pretext to send its army into the oil-rich kingdom.
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