| 单词 | fearful |
| 释义 | fear·ful 1. a. < spent a fearful night alone in the woods > < won the war but at a fearful cost > b. < casting fearful glances at the large dog as he passed it > 2. a. < Henry, fearful lest his prize should escape him at the last, was driven to offer terms — J.R.Green > < fearful for his safety > b. < heaped scorn on all fearful people who strove only for comfort and security > c. archaic d. < riveted his eyes in fearful ecstasy — Thomas Gray > 3. a. < fearful slum conditions > b. < a patron who had taken a fearful shellacking wagered every last chip — Bennett Cerf > < she exercises a fearful attraction — C.W.Cunnington > < a fearful litter of paper — Arnold Bennett > Synonyms: < our fearful trip is done, the ship has weathered every rack — Walt Whitman > < a fearful battlefield, the earth of it gaped open by shells and bombs — Ira Wolfert > < monsters, ghosts, spirit voices, and other fearful sights and sounds — Time > awful describes that which strikes one profoundly with overpowering awareness of might, power, or significance transcending the individual < he looked at war and he saw through all the sham glory to the awful evil beneath — Edith Hamilton > < the awful impersonality of those great rock-creatures, the terrible impartiality of that cold, clinging wind which swept by, never an inch lifted above ground — John Galsworthy > < the awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb — D.D.Eisenhower > dreadful applies to what fills one with a haunting shuddering fear or yearning to escape, often unanalyzable and persistent < he perished, he and his house, struck by a thunderbolt in the midst of a dreadful storm — J.G.Frazer > < in his delirium his ravings have been dreadful; of wolves and poison and blood; of ghosts and demons — Bram Stoker > frightful is applicable either to what causes consternated fright at the moment or to what is generally awful, outrageous, or enormous < the Ghost of a Lady, dressed in deep mourning, a scar on her forehead, and a bloody handkerchief at her breast, frightful to behold — George Meredith > < look at what the British did in Greece — the most frightful military blunder, for which they are paying now — Upton Sinclair > < a frightful spectacle of poverty, barbarity, and ignorance — T.B.Macaulay > terrible describes whatever inspires terror or extreme desperate dominating fear; it may describe something unendurable or excruciating to feelings or sensibilities < so terrible was his wrath at their resistance that the Dean of St. Paul's, who stood forth to remonstrate, dropped dead of sheer terror at his feet — J.R.Green > < three terrible days in the hospital, tortured by a monster headache, a frightful thirst — Xavier Herbert > < one of those terrible women produced now and then by the Roman stock, unsexed, implacable, filled with an insane lust of power — John Buchan > terrific applies to what compels terror, often by force, stunning effect, release of energy, explosive manifestation < eyes starting with frantic terror at the terrific scene that met them — C.G.D.Roberts > < a terrific barrage of shell and bomb fragments, smoke, flame and debris from the stricken vessel — F.D.Roosevelt > < in 1848 a $75,000 dam was completed, and on the same day it was swept away by the terrific pressure, incorrectly calculated, of the water behind it — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > horrible describes that which instills a combination of terror and loathing or one of pure loathing at hideousness or hatefulness < there came a most horrible yell — the most dreadful sound, Mr. Holmes, that ever I heard. It will ring in my ears as long as I live. I sat frozen with horror for a minute or two — A. Conan Doyle > < every horrible detail of Nazi atrocity — Encounter > < the most horrible monsters and tortures, and the most loathsome and noisome abominations, that his fervid imagination could concoct — C.W.Eliot > horrific is close to horrible but may stress actual effect rather than the potential effect of the latter < that horrific yarn “The Body-Snatcher” — C.E.Montague > < there was a horrific, splitting, tearing roar, and then I knew no more — A.C.Whitehead > shocking is a milder term applying to what startles, especially as contrary to expectations, taste, sensibilities, or morality < his face has been terribly mutilated, and — what seems even more shocking — the poor fellow's hands have been cut right off at the wrists — Dorothy Sayers > < the shocking realities of a world in which the principles of common humanity and common decency are being mowed down by the firing squads of the Gestapo — F.D.Roosevelt > appalling describes what terrifies and also dismays or dumbfounds < a huge bomb had … gone off with such appalling violence that it killed thirty people outright and injured hundreds — F.L.Allen > < an appalling exhaustion rendered her helpless — Arnold Bennett > dire applies to the extremely fearful and dread or ominous < prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught — F.D.Roosevelt > < the dire possibilities of a head-on collision — O.S.Nock > < wolves ran in ferocious packs, dire wolves, larger than any wolf man has seen — Marjory S. Douglas > Synonym: see in addition afraid. |
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