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fearsomeadjective causing fearat night the child would always imagine that there were fearsome monsters lurking under his bed alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening extreme in degree, power, or effectafter working all afternoon in the hot sun, I had developed a fearsome thirst 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 accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepenedemphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnifiedstressedexhaustive, thoroughharsh, rigorous, severe light, moderate, soft feeble, weakshallow, superficialmoderated, qualifiedalleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued easily frightenedthe more fearsome of the two children would only peer at the guests from a distance fainthearted, fearful, mousy(or mousey), scary, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-livered, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), poltroon, pusillanimous, spineless, unheroic, yellowjittery, jumpy, spookyanxious, apprehensive, nervousafraid, alarmed, horrified, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized, unnerved adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing, gutsy, hardy, venturesome, venturous brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorousassured, confident, self-assured, self-confidentdetermined, firm, game, plucky, resolute, undeterred, unflinching, unswervingmettlesome, spirited, spunky in 1768 |