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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. causing fear or dread or terror;
- Example: "the awful war"
- Example: "an awful risk"
- Example: "dire news"
- Example: "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
- Example: "the dread presence of the headmaster"
- Example: "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
- Example: "a dreadful storm"
- Example: "a fearful howling"
- Example: "horrendous explosions shook the city"
- Example: "a terrible curse"
[syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fearsome \Fear"some\ (f[=e]r"s[u^]m) a.
   1. Frightful; causing fear. [Scotch] "This fearsome wind."
      --Sir W. Scott
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome
      thing." --B. Taylor
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fearsome
    adj 1: 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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
           dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
           frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]