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fearsome

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fear·some  (fîrsm)
adj.
1. Causing or capable of causing fear: "The Devil is a fearsome enemy" (Jimmy Breslin).
2. Fearful; timid.

fearsome·ly adv.
fearsome·ness n.

fearsome [ˈfɪəsəm]
adj
1. frightening
2. timorous; afraid
fearsomely  adv
fearsomeness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.fearsome - 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"
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

fearsome
Translations
fearsome [ˈfɪəsəm] ADJ [opponent, reputation, weapon] → temible; [sight] → espantoso; [competition] → encarnizado
he has a fearsome servetiene un saque temible or tremendo
fearsome [ˈfɪərsəm] adj [opponent] → redoutable; [reputation] → redoutable; [sight] → effrayant(e)
fearsome
adjfurchterregend; he was in a fearsome rageer hatte einen fürchterlichen Wutanfall
fearsome [ˈfɪəsəm] adj (opponent) → formidabile, terribile; (sight) → terrificante
fearsome [ˈfɪəsəm] adj (opponent) → formidabile, terribile; (sight) → terrificante


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Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath the window where the old man stood; and as the child ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him, and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance as clearly as it were writ upon the leaves of a great book that had been thrown wide before him.
To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.
 
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