fearsome adj : 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(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

English

Adjective

fearsome

1. frightening, especially in appearance.

Translations

• Finnish: pelottava

Related terms

• fear
• fearful

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