fearfulとは

語源

From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear +‎ -ful.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəfəl/

形容詞

fearful (comparative fearfuller または fearfuler または more fearful, superlative fearfullest または fearfulest または most fearful)

1. Frightening.
2. Tending to fear; timid.

   a fearful boy

3. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

     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.

4. (now まれに) Frightened; filled with terror.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]

同意語

• (frightened): frightened, timid, timorous
• See also Thesaurus:afraid

Further reading

• fearful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fearful in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• Lauffer