Associations to the word «Fearsome»
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
FEARSOME, adjective. Frightening, especially in appearance.
FEARSOME, adjective. (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened
Dictionary definition
FEARSOME, adjective. 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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.