English Dictionary

fearful

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪə(ɹ)fəl/

形容詞

古風 古語

Frightening; causing fear. / Tending to fear; timid. / (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad. / (now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.

日本語の意味

恐ろしい；怖い；恐怖を引き起こす / 臆病な；内気な / （古風な用法）ひどく悪い；非常に劣った / （現代では稀な用法）怯えた；極度に恐怖に満ちた

A fearful shadow loomed at the end of the hallway.

廊下の奥に恐ろしい影が現れた。

意味（1）

Frightening; causing fear.

In the later Hebrew midrash Lilith is presented as the woman who knows how to recite the fearful name of God to work calamity; that this little girl cries out the fearful name of the sun god and thereby causes an earthquake would indicate that this girl is linked in the structure of the myth with Lilith.

意味（2）

Tending to fear; timid.

a fearful boy

意味（3）

(dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

But every day after dinner, for an hour, we were all together, and then the Favourite and the rest of the Royal Hareem competed who should most beguile the leisure of the Serene Haroun reposing from the cares of State — which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.

意味（4）

(now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.

kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords, And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs, When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe Theſe are the men that al the world admires,

fearfuller （ comparative ）

fearfuler （ comparative ）

more fearful （ comparative ）

fearfullest （ superlative ）

fearfulest （ superlative ）

most fearful （ superlative ）