fearful Copy link Outline I. Feeling fear1. mĕtuens (apprehensive of2. tĭmĭdus (habitually)3. păvĭdus (very f.)II. Causing fear1. fērālis, e2. dīrus • fearful: I. Feeling fear: 1. mĕtuens (apprehensive of: with gen.): content with little, and f. of the future, contentus parvo metuensque futuri, Hor.: f. of the rod, m. virgae, Juv.: the consuls, temperate men, and f. of (breaking) the laws, coss. modesti legumque m., Cic.: Nero, more f. for the future, surrounded himself with soldiers, N., metuentior in posterum, milites sibi circumdedit, Tac. 2. tĭmĭdus (habitually): the unwarlike and the f., imbelles t.que, Cic.: not f. of death, non t. ad mortem, Cic.: f. hope, t. spes, Ov.: rarely with gen.: f. of the storm, t. procellae, Hor.: v. timid. 3. păvĭdus (very f.): v. afraid, alarmed, panic-struck. II. Causing fear: 1. fērālis, e: the f. formulary (of devotion), f. carmen, Liv.: f. carnage, f. caedes, Ov. 2. dīrus: v. dreadful, terrible.