Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Adjective
S: (adj) fearful (experiencing or showing fear) "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
S: (adj) awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible (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"
S: (adj) cowardly, fearful (lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted) "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
S: (adj) fearful, timorous, trepid (timid by nature or revealing timidity) "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"