FEARFUL Copy link • FEARFULTimorous, timidus: pavidus: trepidus [SYN. in FEAR, s.] : formidinis plenus (full of fear and awe, Cic., Att., 9, 10, 2, instead of formidolosus, which does not belong to good prose): ignavus (cowardly; compare the substantives in FEAR): to be fearful, timidum, etc., esse (but not metuere or timere, absolutely): to become fearful, ad timorem se convertere: to make anybody fearful [Vid: “to put in FEAR”]: to pretend to be fearful, *metum (timorem), pavorem simulare: do not be fearful! omitte timorem! Dreadful, metuendus: timendus (that is to be feared): terribilis (terrible): horrendus (horrible): horribilis: formidolosus (producing awe or horror; formidabilis is foreign to good prose): trux, truculentus (dreadful to behold, to hear; e.g., eyes, look, words, etc.): immanis (monstrous): ingens (enormous): A fearful war, bellum formidolosum, atrox: to present or depict anything as fearful, ad timorem aliquid proponere (Cic., Fam., 2, 16, 4): as very fearful, ad maximum timorem proponere (ib. 6, 3, 3): to make or render one’s self more fearful than powerful, plus timoris quam potentiae sibi addere. Vid: also, DREADFUL.