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Meanings of fearful in English
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Examples for "frightful"
Examples for "frightful"
1
There is some error, one frightful error, in the thinking of men.
2
No musical form, however frightful, seems immune from reinvention, reconstitution or revivification.
3
It is more terrible in sound than frightful in reality, my child.
4
That was the most frightful thing about it; it had no mouth.
5
To be caught in the mysterious toils of the law is frightful.
Usage of fearful in English
1
It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
2
There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
3
A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
4
The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful.
5
And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
6
The next instant I was in the midst of a fearful snowstorm.
7
There has been a fearful breakdown of internal civil order in Serbia.
8
The winter seasons in the Rocky mountains are usually fearful and severe.
9
The fearful nervous crisis which Vandover had undergone had passed off slowly.
10
Time to talk of fearful images in the lexicon of distance running.
11
A fearful scene appears in the deepest circle of the infernal abodes.
12
Suddenly there was a fearful scream in the rear of the building.
13
In the year 1578 a fearful epidemic devastated the city of Pavia.
14
Even in the broader ones the danger of being crushed was fearful.
15
The fearful curse of the country, however, is the belief in witchcraft.
16
He pointed out the fearful penalty attached to the favor she sought.
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Fearful through the time
Fearful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Common
New Zealand
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